Amanda Carpenter

Riveting and compelling. The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down. "Only a true novelist could breathe warmth, compassion, humor, into what a historian would necessarily have pictured as a stark, hopeless tragic series of events. Only a sensitive novelist could compel us to embark upon such a fearful adventure as this and remain until the end" -The New York Times "A searching, heroic story." -The Atlantic

When ice meets fire, the ice melts... Yvonne Trent had it all. She was beautiful and talented, with famous parents and a glamourous life-style. But pretty soon Yvonne discovered that fame and fortune weren't enough... It took all of Adam Ruarke's powers of persuasion to encourage Yvonne back to work. And Yvonne knew immediately that she would do anything to gain Adam's love and admiration. Loving Adam had it's rewards, but there was also a price to pay...

Heir to the clan MacFarlane, Ailis was a prize to be bartered by her calculating father, and her wedding to a man she despised seemed inevitable--until she is abducted by her clan's worst enemy, Alexander MacDubh, a brutally handsome laird with ice in his eyes and hot blood in his veins. She had heard rumors of the most famous and feared member of the MacDubh clan, a fair and loving man transformed by grief into an embittered, cold-hearted raider. And now, she was at his mercy. Alexander had come riding into Leargan to claim the three children born of a forbidden love between his brother and lovely Ailis' sister. Now, with Ailis herself as his pawn, he can strike at the enemy whose treachery robbed his clan of so much. Her beauty and her fierce temper stir his blood, and vengeance has never been so sinfully sweet. But will a passion they cannot deny by enough to ease the pain and torment of the past--and break the chains around his heart?

She would never again let a man hurt her "You'd have been willing if I hadn't told you I was married." Neil had acted as if he'd been the offended party instead of Carrie. It still hurt--she had loved and trusted him. A world she'd cherished and believed in had vanished. Carrie felt more alone than she'd ever felt before--painfully insecure and vulnerable. Even when she met Gabe Jackson, a man unlike Neil in every way, Carrie dared not count on Gabe's love to pull her through.

A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship.Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can't give Johanna everything she needs--it can't give her Reeve Hartt.Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that draws Johanna's fluttering moth. Johanna is determined to get her, against all advice, and to help her, against all reason. But love isn't always reasonable, right?In the precarious place where attraction and need collide, a teenager experiences the dark side of a first love, and struggles to find her way into a new light.From the Hardcover edition.

"What the hell do you want to do, see me bleed?" Loving a man like Damien Kent could be hell, Jessica King thought, on the evening of the party to which he was escorting another woman. A woman he was thinking of marrying - for business reasons. And he obviously thought that marriage would make no difference to their liaison. But Jessica was not going to get tied up in a deceitful relationship. So she changed the locks on the door of her apartment and tried to lock his image out of her heart. But Damien Kent was a determined man with the reputation of getting what he wanted. And he wanted Jessica.

Why wouldn't he leave her alone? Why wouldn't Ryan Forrester accept the fact that Devan's writing career was over? She couldn't continue to write about something she didn't understand. It was that simple. Her books were about love - and Devan was a failure at love. She knew that Ryan was a brilliant editor, sensitive and fair. She didn't know that he was also a tough, hard-driving man, capable of tracking Devan to her secluded hideout in rural Maine -- and staying there until he'd forced her to begin writing

Kirstie had gone to considerable trouble Her plot just had to succeed! She would abduct Francis Grayson and dump the attractive businessman on a remote mountain in Vermont. And she'd leave him there until her elder sister Louise was safely married. But Kirstie hadn't made any allowance for Francis's quick recovery or his resourcefulness. Nor had it once crossed her mind that she might be just as susceptible to Francis's lethal charms as Louise....

An independent woman, a strong-willed man, and a love neither of them can deny. Diana needed no one. She'd survived on her own, put herself through school, and was totally self-sufficient. And now, at twenty-six, she had a successful career in the business world. And despite the fact that her new boss, Alex Mason was dynamic and attractive, she was determined to keep it strictly professional between them. But when unscrupulous business rivals threaten to destroy all that Alex has built, Diana finds herself falling for the hard-working man she discovers behind his formal façade. And the closer she gets to Alex, the farther she drifts from her hard-fought independence...

The only thing she wanted was her freedom. The daughter of a very rich and ruthless man, Katherine Marie Farlough wants nothing more than to be free of his demanding, merciless clutches. Trapped like a bird in a cage, she acts out in an attempt to have someone—anyone—recognize her desperate situation. Lucas Dalton is the most handsome man Katherine has ever seen, and he also happens to be her father’s business rival. He’s also the only person to see behind her glittering façade to the desperation lurking underneath. With no regard to the problems it might cause him, Lucas offers her the chance at freedom, independence, and even love.

My brother is not the man for you!' When dark and dangerous Matt Severn threatened retribution if Sian continued to see his brother, she wasn't looking for romance. She had only ever thought of Joshua as a friend, but soon decided that arrogant Matt needed teaching a lesson. Unfortunately, Sian hadn't taken her own feelings into account and suddenly she was passionately in love with a man who believed in happy-ever-after. Sian wasn't a gambler like her father, but could she now afford to play her last card and take a chance on love?

Take a chance on love.... Mary Newman -- her life was safe, predictable and reasonably happy. Until the day he walked in! Chance Armstrong -- he had no respect for rules and regulations and cozy life-styles. But he was offering Mary the perfect chance for a lot of excitement, and she was tempted -- oh, so tempted....Until Chance offered the most tempting challenge of all...He asked Mary to marry him!

Something was happening to their friendship. Robbie Fisher had always been a couple of years and a few changes behind her neighbour, Jason Morrow. Still, he'd lent an ear to all her dreams and troubles right up to the time he'd left for university. Now he was back in Cincinnati, looking after his parents home for the summer. But Robbie no longer felt comfortable confiding in him. He was the man with the golden future, while hers was still in question. What could he be to her now? Stranger, big brother, friend or something disturbingly new? It was a dilemma Robbie could discuss with no one—Jason least of all!

Men adored her, women envied her. Caprice lived up to her name. A tantalizing, colourful butterfly, she was an unpredictable young beauty who kept everything hidden beneath the surface. No man had ever gotten close to her, and that was the way she wanted it. Why, then, did her mind dwell on the handsome, enigmatic Pierce Langston? Why did he excite her—and frighten her? Caprice knew the answer. It lay in his disturbing gaze, which seemed to see right through her; in his touch, which sent sensual shivers down her spine.