Jeanne Stephens

In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS...

PRIDE'S POSSESSION... Sara Dantan was her own woman, making her own way in the world, but Dr. Court Pride had plans to end all that. He planned to make her his woman, and the more she resisted, the more he enjoyed the fight. His kisses taunted her, his caresses tormented herm until she had to give in because she wanted nothing more than to be Pride's possession.

Once Kathleen had loved Quinn Gresham, and the sadness of what had followed haunted her until the day he walked back into her life. On that day sadness became anger. He didn't know about the daughter he had given her, the infant who had so briefly brightened her life. But how could he fail to sense her pain at seeing him again? Apparently their one night had meant nothing to him, but it had meant the world to Kathleen. Despite the sorrow, the anger, the pain, in those few shining hours she had fulfilled a love that would last in her heart forever.

Jenna Wade thought she had everything in life when she married Daniel Prescott. But when her marriage fell apart and she lost the child she was carrying, along with her dreams she lost her faith. Returning home to Cypress Creek, she built a wall between her and the rest of the world. Jake McConnell had faced his own challenges, but his faith had carried him through his own personal crisis. Now he wanted to help Jenna find her way back to God and see if they could build a future together. Can he break through her barriers and convince her they can have a future or will she keep her back turned to everything she believed in?

Perhaps they had been too young to marry. Certainly Kristin hadn't been ready for the rigors of being a football player's wife, of facing the constant fear of crippling injury. Under such stress, their marriage had broken--and her heart with it. Now Wyatt was back. He had retired from the game to run his successful chain of sporting-goods stores, but he was as driven to succeed as ever. And one of his goals was to recapture Kristin's love and rebuild the dream of a future that he'd shared with her so long ago.

In West of Eden and Winter in Eden, master novelist Harry Harrison broke new ground with his most ambitious project ever. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendents, the Yilane, challenged humans for mastery of the Earth, and where the human Kerrick, a young hunter of the Tanu tribe, grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy.Now, in Return to Eden, Harrison brings the epic trilogy to a stunning conclusion. After Kerrick rescues his people from the warlike Yilane, they find a safe haven on an island and there begin to rebuild their shattered lives. But with fierce predators stalking the forests, how long can these unarmed human outcasts hope to survive?And, of course, Kerrick cannot forget Vainte, his implacable Yilane enemy. She's been cast out from her kind, under sentence of death, but how long will her banishment last? For her strange attraction to Kerrick has turned into a hatred even more powerful than her instincts - an obsession that compels her to hunt down Kerrick and kill him...

A haunting refrain. When Ellie saw a figure in white at dusk, heard a fragment of music wafting on the evening breeze, she refused to be frightened. She was starting a new life at Wildhorse Mill and she wasn't going to let the spirits of the past touch her--not the death of her marriage, nor the death of Mandy, the old mill owner's wife. But some things can't be ignored. Ben Stapleton was one of them. At 6'2" he was hard to overlook, and as county sheriff he was the man to turn to in troubled times . . . a man Ellie found she could depend on. A man she could love.

COMING HOME Amber Rowland had returned to the ranch she had run away from so many years before. She had changed from a confused teenager to a confident and beautiful woman, but her heart still yearned for the man she had left--Justin Kane. As a girl she had been afraid to follow her hear and commit herself to Justin. As a woman she had to fight her fears--and his anger--as they learned love's greatest lesson: you can go home again.

After watching the disintegration of parents' marriage, Liann McDowell had vowed never to fall in love with a cop, but Cody Wakefield seemed all too able change her mind. They were thrown together by a local murder trial, Liann as the prosecutor and Cody as the investigating officer, but he didn't seem content to let their relationship stop at business. Cody wanted to get to know her on the most personal level of all, and when she finally gave in to her own desires, she realized that the long chill of winter was over at last.

PUPPY LOVE What was Annie Malloy supposed to do with half of California? And why on earth did she have to share custody of the crazily named basset-hound star of a dog food commercial with her ex-lover Sam Bennington? Not that she didn't like animals--she did. But she still loved Sam, and he hadn't changed...He still didn't need her. Sam Bennington had never let himself depend on anyone. But if he'd ever needed anyone, it was warm, passionate Annie. He could only hope that it wasn't too late. Maybe this time, with California as matchmaker, he'd be able to convince Annie of his feelings. Then she'd see the love that had always dwelled within his heart.