Bantam Books

Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice returns to the heart of the family in her newest tale. Abandoned by her husband before their daughter's birth, Dianne Robbins has spent years caring for her child's every need almost alone. It was her husband's pediatrician brother Alan who stood by them, and who fell in love with Dianne. But Dianne has closed her...

When a hit man murders her daughter, the only thing that keeps Nell Calder alive is her thirst for revenge. Armed with a stunning new face and a body to match, she sets out to kill. What she doesn't count on is that her quest for vengeance will also result in her gaining a new reason to go on living. A forceful, enigmatic hero with a dangerous past...

Minneapolis has more than its share of interesting cops (Lucas Davenport of the John Sandford thrillers, for one), and Tami Hoag's homicide dicks, Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska, join the club in this thoughtful and surprisingly moving novel of dirty cops and cover-ups. Internal Affairs investigator Andy Fallon is a suicide--or is he? The word around...

It is the summer of 1939, and like the rest of Europe, the residents of the little idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war. Beautiful but shy Judy Melton, daughter of a naval war hero, her determinedly feckless friend, the social butterfly Meggie Gore-Stewart, seemingly demure Mathilda Eastcott, and Corrie Hogarth, the tomboy...

Assistant County Attorney Ellen North's assignment to the Kirkwood case has landed her in the hot seat - a position she thought she had left behind in the crime-choked Minneapolis court system. But politics and ulterior motives abound. As Ellen prepares for her toughest assignment yet, she faces not only a sensation-driven press corps, but an...

The Maid #8211; Frankis Willis is a twenty-five-year-old blonde computer whizzkid, searching for adventure as a stewardess on board mega-yacht Pushkin. The Hooker #8211; Peaches Gold is a risk-taking, tough-talking, knockout brunette who#8217;s LA#8217;s most influential madam. At nearly forty, she#8217;s got a little black book that could bring...