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Wife of Moon (Wind River Mystery #10)
by Margaret CoelArapaho attorney Vicki Holden and Father John O'Malley must find the link between the murder of a woman--and the murder of her ancestor from a century earlier.
Wife or Death
by Ellery QueenA journalist accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer Angel Denton's extramarital activities are the worst-kept secret in town. Jim Denton has endured the cuckold's horns for ages, but by midnight on Halloween he's finally fed up. Deserted at a masquerade ball, he takes refuge at the bar while his wife flirts her way up and down the dance floor in a costume so revealing she risks being arrested for indecency. Lightning strikes, the electricity goes out, and Denton overhears his wife planning a tryst with another man. The next morning, he finds a note saying that she's leaving him. And he never sees Angel alive again. A week later, the police find Angel in the woods, her once-beautiful body mangled by wild dogs. Everyone is sure Denton killed her, and to save his own neck, the desperate husband will have to find Angel's last lover--and take revenge.
Wife with Amnesia
by Metsy HingleSHE COULDN’T REMEMBER…He said he was her husband, but Claire had no recollection of New Orleans titan Matt Gallagher—or the luxurious life he claimed they’d shared. Though she couldn’t deny the passion his virile presence aroused, she didn’t dare give in to the rush of powerful emotions. Especially since she sensed her alleged husband wasn’t telling her all….HE COULDN’T FORGET!When Claire turned up with no memory of their separation, Matt seized the opportunity to reclaim his wife—and protect her from her mysterious assailant. Matt could face any danger—except the danger of losing the love of his life….
Wifeshopping: Stories
by Steven WingateWifeshopping centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love-starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with the women they imagine could be their wives. Some of the women are fiancées, some are new girlfriends, some are strangers who cross the men’s paths for only a few hours or moments. In “Beaching It,” an artist traveling on the summer circuit begins an affair with a rich, married local. In “Me and Paul,” a lonely traveler adopts an alter ego to help him impress a single mother. In “Bill,” a trip to a flea market highlights the essential differences between a man and his fiancée. Throughout this thoroughly entertaining read, Wingate’s sympathetic characterizations reveal both the hopefulness and the heartache behind our earnest but sometimes misguided attempts at intimacy.
Wiggle Room
by Darden North"Darden North writes vividly, with strong pace, action and emotion, counterbalanced with sharp observations and wry humor. "-Peter James, bestselling author of Not Dead Yet "A rollercoaster ride of murder, intrigue, and plot twists. Wiggle Room keeps you turning the pages to the final, climactic finish "-Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The Conviction Brad Cummins is an Air Force surgeon who returns from overseas deployment after serving four months at the height of the Iraq War, during which he fails to save an injured soldier but mends the GIs attacker. He endures rigid criticism from his peers, yet survives the medical tribunals investigation. Back in Jackson, Mississippi, still blaming himself for returning the insurgent to the killing fields, Cummins discovers his look-alike brother shot to death and is certain that he was the intended target. Both the police and Brads fiancee discount his fears as paranoia, forcing Brad to consult a psychiatrist. Then his fiancee is found murdered in his apartment. There is no doubt in his mind that he is marked for murder.
Wight Mischief
by Jl MerrowA ghost of a chance at love. Personal trainer Will Golding has been looking forward to a getaway with his best friend, Baz, a journalist researching a book on ghosts. But on the first day of their camping trip on the Isle of Wight, Will takes a walk on a secluded beach and spies a beautiful young man skinny-dipping by moonlight. Ethereally pale, he’s too perfect to be real—or is he? Lonely author Marcus Devereux is just as entranced by the tall athlete he encounters on the beach, but he’s spent the years since his parents’ violent death building a wall around his heart, and the thought of letting Will scale it is terrifying. Marcus’s albinism gives him his otherworldly appearance and leaves him reluctant to go out in daylight, his reclusiveness encouraged by his guardian—who warns him to stay away from Will and Baz. The attraction between Will and Marcus can’t be denied—but neither can the danger of the secrets haunting Marcus’s past, as one “accident” after another strikes Will and Baz. If they don’t watch their step, they could end up added to the island’s ghostly population.
Wilbur Smith's Smashing Thrillers: Hungry As The Sea, Elephant Song and Wild Justice
by Wilbur SmithThree thrilling, original adventures from the master of the genre, Wilbur Smith - for the first time in one collection of classics - that will take you on a journey deep into the heart of Africa at its wildest and most magnificent Hungry as the Sea: Nick Berg - robbed of his wife and ousted from his huge shipping empire - is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his arch-rival's luxury liner is trapped in the tempestuous Antarctic, Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug, the Warlock, in a desperate race against time and the elements… Elephant Song: In Zimbabwe's Chiwewe National Park, Dr Daniel Armstrong - world-famous TV naturalist - films the slaughter of a herd of elephant. Meanwhile in London, anthropologist Kelly Kinnear is forced into violent confrontation with the shareholders of the most powerful conglomerate in the City of London, warning them of the destruction of an African country. Now the time has come to act. Together, Armstrong and Kinnear forge a passionate alliance - and begin the fight against the forces of greed, evil and corruption attacking a land they would both give their lives to save… Wild Justice: The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanizes anti-terrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But in the hail of bullets which follows, he knows that this is only the beginning of a nightmare. Stride is the one man who might find the twisted genius who holds the world hostage - if only his every move were not anticipated by the enemy…
Wild
by Gil BrewerTwo frantic noir thrillers from 1959 and 1961 from an author about whom Bill Pronzini had this to say: "He produced some of the most compelling noir softcover originals of the 1950's. "
Wild
by Gil BrewerI never knew what trouble was until she came back into my life and started fanning the flames on an old torch."I need you, Lee," she said. Then she looked up at me with those wonderful, burning dark eyes of hers and I fell into them just like I always did--like it was yesterday and we were crazy in love on Cloud 13.Only it was today. Only she already had a husband. Only he was missing. She wanted me to find him before he found her--and killed her.There were holes in her story. There were holes in my head, too. Because I bought every word of it.Bang! The next thing I knew I was head over heels in a mess of corpses, killers, and wild, wild women.
Wild
by Gil BrewerI never knew what trouble was until she came back into my life and started fanning the flames on an old torch.“I need you, Lee,” she said. Then she looked up at me with those wonderful, burning dark eyes of hers and I fell into them just like I always did—like it was yesterday and we were crazy in love on Cloud 13.Only it was today. Only she already had a husband. Only he was missing. She wanted me to find him before he found her—and killed her.There were holes in her story. There were holes in my head, too. Because I bought every word of it.Bang! The next thing I knew I was head over heels in a mess of corpses, killers, and wild, wild women.
Wild & Sweet
by Rhenna MorganLive hard, f*ck harder and follow only their own rules. Those are the cornerstones the six men of the Haven Brotherhood live and bleed by, refusing to conform to society's expectations, taking what they want and always watching each other's backs. Zeke Dugan is not a man who walks the straight and narrow. He may have sworn an oath as a trauma doc, but he has zero problem leveraging his medical skills outside a hospital if it means giving the Brotherhood-the group of men he calls family-an advantage. Blood before business. All that changes when shy Gabrielle stumbles into his life and ignites his protective instincts. Mechanic Gabrielle Parker prefers the complexities of an engine over men. Her life wasn't always quiet and well-ordered, but now that it is, she finds peace in the solitude. When a robbery in her neighborhood forces her out of her safe bubble, she never fathoms that a dangerous, cocky trauma doctor will fix more than her injuries. Zeke doesn't play by the rules that Gabrielle follows but knows that he's exactly what she needs in her life. He'll show her the fierce and uncompromising protection that comes from belonging to a man like him. When tension outside the Brotherhood threatens Gabrielle, Zeke will do anything to keep her safe, and damn the consequences. No one will hurt his woman, even if it means putting the very men who saved his life at risk. This book is approximately 95,000 words One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you're looking for with an HEA/HFN. It's a promise!
Wild About Harry
by BatemanMeet Harry McKee - a sleazy local chat show host. Once a loving husband, he's become a drunken unfaithful slob. His wife is divorcing him and taking him to the cleaners. Even his kids won't speak to him. On his last night as a married man he winds up drunk and is beaten up. When he keels over the next day at the divorce hearing his wife and solicitor assume he's pulling a fast one. He eventually wakes from a week-long coma but he's lost his memory - everything since 1974.Inside his sagging middle-aged body, Harry feels eighteen again. Though he doesn't know it yet, he has been given the chance to get back his life, his wife and his self-respect. If only he could remember how it all went wrong and why his family hate him...
Wild About Harry
by BatemanMeet Harry McKee - a sleazy local chat show host. Once a loving husband, he's become a drunken unfaithful slob. His wife is divorcing him and taking him to the cleaners. Even his kids won't speak to him. On his last night as a married man he winds up drunk and is beaten up. When he keels over the next day at the divorce hearing his wife and solicitor assume he's pulling a fast one. He eventually wakes from a week-long coma but he's lost his memory - everything since 1974.Inside his sagging middle-aged body, Harry feels eighteen again. Though he doesn't know it yet, he has been given the chance to get back his life, his wife and his self-respect. If only he could remember how it all went wrong and why his family hate him...
Wild Action
by Dawn StewardsonA screwball romantic comedy with wild animal attraction!Animal magnetism!Nick Montgomery was a cop, not an animal trainer. At least, not until he quit his job on the promise of an inheritance and found out he owned half of Wild Action, an animal talent agency.The other half belonged to Carly Dumon, his dead uncle's protégée, and a very attractive one at that. Of course, Nick told himself he wasn't interested. All he wanted was to put Wild Action in the black and sell his share so he could go back to his real life-even if that meant solving the mystery behind the series of "accidents" plaguing the agency.But that was before Attila the bear fell in love with him and refused to behave for anyone else. It was also before he fell in love with Carly, who didn't behave for anyone!
Wild Animals
by Robert Sims ReidGood old by Merle Puhl is campaigning to be a United States Senator from Montana, and a former President is coming to Rozette to give him a hand. This means that the Secret Service is coming, too, and local police detective Ray Bartell is assigned to work with them. Bartell's job: act as the security detail's tour guide in the realm of local lunatics. The job starts out interesting, but takes a bad turn when Puhl decides to use one outspoken environmentalist, Henry Skelton, as campaign fodder. Skelton has a violent past, so the Secret Service-and consequently Bartell-must take him seriously. In response, Skelton seems determined to prove that everything Puhl does to portray him as a dangerous extremist is true. But where, Bartell comes to wonder, are the lines of extremism drawn? How do you recognize the difference between a patriotic fool and a foolish patriot? And how do you sort out the wreckage when the two clash?
Wild As a Wolf (SWAT #15)
by Paige TylerNothing is more powerful than a werewolf—excerpt perhaps a mighty warrior.Nothing surprises SWAT alpha Hale Delaney—he's seen almost everything since he became a werewolf. But when he goes head-to-head with Dallas's newest supernatural villain and is saved by the woman he loved and lost a decade ago, his world is turned upside down. Karissa Bonifay has always been fierce and capable, but now she's a sword-wielding warrior in her own right.The more time Hale and Karissa spend together hunting the dangerous supernaturals terrorizing the city, the closer they come to the truth about what really came between them all those years ago...Praise for Paige Tyler's paranormal romances:"A wild, hot, and sexy ride from beginning to end! I loved it!"—Terry Spear, USA Today bestselling author, for Her Perfect Mate"A steamy, action-packed walk on the wild side! The sexy wolves of SWAT are not to be missed!"—J.D. Tyler, bestselling author, for Wolf Trouble"Signature tongue-in-cheek humor, paranormal action, and plenty of sizzle."—Publishers Weekly for The Wolf Is Mine
Wild Awake
by Hilary T. SmithIn Wild Awake, Hilary T. Smith's exhilarating and heart-wrenching YA debut novel, seventeen-year-old Kiri Byrd has big plans for her summer without her parents. She intends to devote herself to her music and win Battle of the Bands with her bandmate and best friend, Lukas. Perhaps then, in the excitement of victory, he will finally realize she's the girl of his dreams.But a phone call from a stranger shatters Kiri's plans. He says he has her sister's stuff—her sister, Sukey, who died five years ago. This call throws Kiri into a spiral of chaos that opens old wounds and new mysteries.Like If I Stay and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Wild Awake explores loss, love, and what it means to be alive.
Wild Card
by Susan AmarillasJustice Was A Hard MistressAnd one who demanded all of Jake McConnell's devotion. Until the day Clair Travers insisted that the straight-arrow lawman remove himself from her saloon. The day he knew his life would never be the same...Clair Travers Was Living a LieShe had gambled on a new life. But she hadn't counted on falling for a man like Jake McConnell, a man whose dedication to the truth could uncover the murderous secret that haunted her past.
Wild Card (A Stone Barrington Novel #49)
by Stuart WoodsStone Barrington clashes with a determined adversary in the latest non-stop thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. <P><P>Stone Barrington and his latest paramour are enjoying a peaceful country retreat when their idyll is broken by an unwelcome stranger. He was sent by an enemy, someone who'd be happy to silence Stone and all his collaborators for good . . . only it's soon clear that Stone is not an easy man to target.But with boundless resources and a thirst for vengeance, this foe will not be deterred, and when one plot fails another materializes. <P><P>Their latest plan is more ambitious and subtle than any they've tried before, and the consequences could remake the nation. With the country's future in the balance, Stone will need to muster all his savvy and daring to defeat this rival once and for all. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Wild Card (Buddy Steel Mysteries #3)
by Michael Brandman"...another irreverent, complex lawman." —Library JournalWhen San Remo County Acting Sheriff Buddy Steel is deputized by the California Coastal Commission to investigate a reclusive Russian billionaire who has repeatedly violated state law by obstructing public access to his vast beachfront property, he makes a shocking discovery. And learns that the politicos, some with a history of corruption, some just chicken, will not back up enforcement.This makes Buddy, a former LAPD cop dragged home by his Sheriff father's ALS diagnosis to "temporarily" head the department, dig in his heels and face down the Russian's imported goon squad. It can and will get uglier.At the same time a string of random murders in the county's normally sleepy town of Freedom, a wealthy enclave up the coast from Los Angeles, places the Sheriff's Department on high alert as it seeks to apprehend a serial killer whose crimes are so perfectly executed they leave no forensic evidence.Buddy enlists an old adversary in his war with the Russian. She's a legal shark from L.A., a savvy negotiator—and former lover. He needs to carry this fight to court. And he needs more backup—from the Sheriff's Department staff, not the Sheriff, who resists being sidelined. Nor Freedom's mayor, Buddy's stepmother.Unconventional and meticulously obtuse in his methodology, wild card cynic Buddy Steel barrels his way through the myriad obstacles that defy him. He may not want the job but his quest for serving the law is relentless.Wild Card is the third in the Buddy Steel series by Hollywood ace Michael Brandman who, among his other credits, has both written New York Times bestsellers in the Robert B. Parker Jesse Stone series and brought Jesse to the screen in nine films starring Tom Selleck.
Wild Card Undercover: (love On The Line) (Love on the Line #1)
by Kari LemorAll that glitters in Miami is not gold . . . Lured in by a bad ex-boyfriend and the moonlight of Miami, Meg O’Hara is trapped in a nightmare situation, waiting tables for a crime boss and fearing for her life. When undercover FBI agent Christopher Shaunessy offers her a way out, she seizes it. Getting the goods on Salazar Moreno might not be easy, but she’ll do anything to be freed from her servitude and Moreno’s sexual advances, even if it means moving in with the charismatic agent. Chris Shaunessy pretends to be Meg’s lover in order to keep her safe, but he steels his heart against further involvement. Passion has no place in the sordid world of organized crime. And yet, the closer they get to cracking the case, the stronger his feelings for the spirited waitress shine. It’s a dangerous game he’s playing, and taking Meg in his arms for real could prove a fatal misstep . . .“Wild Card Undercover will capture your heart. Kudos to Lemor.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars
Wild Card: A Stone Barrington Novel #49 (A Stone Barrington Novel #49)
by Stuart WoodsStone Barrington is back to his jet-setting hijinks and nonstop adventures in the latest from #1 New York Times-bestselling Stuart Woods.
Wild Crows - 1. Adicción (Wild Crows #1)
by Blandine P. MartinJusto después de la muerte de su madre, Joe recibe en herencia una carta que le desvela el nombre de su padre biológico, así como el lugar donde vive este. Totalmente sola, y desvalida frente a su duelo, la joven enfermera decide dejarlo todo para irse en busca de ese padre desconocido, un tal Jerry Welsh, propietario de un bar y presidente de un club de moteros en California. Sorprendido al descubrir la existencia de su hija de 27 años, Jerry acepta a su pesar darle una oportunidad, y hacerle un hueco en su mundo propio, pero también en su familia: tanto la de sangre como la de corazón. Joe descubre la verdadera identidad del club. Más que apasionados de las motos, esos hombres forman una verdadera banda que mete la mano en toda clase de economías paralelas. Novata en este mundo, Joe se dispone a meterse de lleno en un universo del que no sale indemne.
Wild Crows - 2. Revelación (Wild Crows #2)
by Blandine P. MartinLa felicidad es un equilibrio frágil, Joe va a aprenderlo de la peor de las maneras. Las palabras de “Mack” aún resuenan en su cabeza. “Cuando pasa algo bueno, todos sabemos en el fondo que es temporal; tarde o temprano vendrá un follón, siempre es así”. Ser la hija del presidente de los Wild Crows no es para nada una bendición, sino más bien un pesado fardo que llevar. El club tiene las manos manchadas de sangre, y Joe tendrá que pagar su parte de las represalias. Le espera una larga travesía por los infiernos, pero las pruebas unen más a las almas heridas. Mientras el club sigue su rumbo, surgen de nuevo los fantasmas del pasado. Cuando golpean en el corazón mismo de la ciudad, pueden darse unas alianzas sorprendentes.
Wild Crows 3. Confesión (Wild Crows #3)
by Blandine P. MartinMientras el verano sigue con normalidad en Monty Valley, Joe intenta continuar su camino a pesar de la ausencia que la está carcomiendo. Ahora que trabaja en San Francisco, intenta retomar algo parecido a una vida normal, en parte gracias a su amigo y compañero Adam. Pero un retorno inesperado hará que toda su vida vuelva a dar un vuelco. Confundida entre el rencor y la necesidad de la verdad, Joe deberá afrontar unos sentimientos hasta entonces aparcados. Más que excusas, lo que espera es una explicación, y piensa hacerle pagar a Trevor Laurens las heridas que le ha causado con su partida. Mientrastanto, el club tiene que acabar el trabajo con los rusos, y Jerry se encuentra con un escollo contra el cual no sabrá cómo lidiar: una carrera contra el reloj, contra el tiempo. ¿Y si ha llegado la hora de afrontar el futuro del club? Por su parte, Ash tendrá que tomar una decisión que le podría cambiar la vida, y poner en peligro el buen rollo de los Wild Crows.