An MPM Celebration

  Shout When med student Julie Newcomb is summoned to the crumbling family estate to tend her malicious, dying grandmother, all she expects is an unpleasant trip down memory lane. But Maidenwood, she finds, has recently made the news with the gruesome discovery of a skeleton on the grounds. With her cousin Matt desperately trying to make political capital out of it, an archaeological team working nearby headed by the man who broke her heart, and the returning memories of her childhood, she finds it harder than she expected. And anyway, who was the mysterious woman discovered, with her dead baby cradled in her arms? Is it in fact, as some claim, the fabled Lady Jocelyn, a seventeenth century figure of romance come to live in the New World? Or is it someone more recent...someone a little closer to home...?

  Amelia Peabody #3 Everybody Wants to Rule the World Thanks to Emerson's poor relationship with the French Director of Antiquities, this seasons finds the Emersons relegated to the dullest excavation site in Egypt...Mazgunah. But, with their catastrophically precocious son Ramses along for his first foray into archaeology, a footman on hand with a propensity for falling in love with unsuitable maidens, a mummy case that appears and disappears with alarming regularity in their storage room, and a Master Criminal on the loose, this season is shaping up to be anything but!

  Somebody's Watching Me After the death of her young Italian husband Bart in a car accident, American Kathy Malone seeks closure by visiting his grandmother at the ancient Florentine estate of the Morandinis. At first, the elegant, aristocratic Francesca is forbidding, but when Kathy accidentally gives the impression that she is pregnant, she suddenly finds herself welcome for an extended stay at the decaying villa. There, she befriends the visiting American professor David Brown, and the lonely ten year old count, Pietro. But some things at the estate don't quite add up--the vicious dog, the forbidden wing, and the purported 'madness' of Pete. And are the visions of Bart Kathy's having just nightmares? Or something more sinister?

  What's Love Got To Do With It Desperate to get out of the small Midwestern college town she's now living in, Jacqueline Kirby signs up for the first east coast conference Coldwater College will underwrite expenses for...but when she arrives at the Historical Romance Writers' Convention, she realizes it's not just Prisoner of the Zenda anymore. The absurdity of her surroundings appeals to Jake's zany's sense of humor, and she quickly makes friends and enemies alike. But when a reporter who has been threatening to unveil dirt on the biggest agent in the business drops dead, murder and mayhem aren't just threatening the lives of the attendees, they're interrupting Jake's new book. And she won't stand for that...

      A Total Eclipse of the Heart Andrea Torgesen is used to life being a battle. The death of their parents in an accident left her the sole guardian of her little brother Jimmie at nineteen. And now twelve years later, her much adored Jimmie has been in a life-altering near-death car wreck, which has left him almost catatonic with depression. The only thing that catches his interest is the prospect of turning an old house left to them by a distant relative into a bed-and-breakfast. As the house and grounds blossom under their hands and they find a place in the nearby community, it seems like a good decision. When Jimmie develops an overwhelming fascination with the private graveyard on their property and an obsession with the abandoned tower room, their long-term guest Martin starts to get alarmed, though. But Andy refuses to see anything ominous in the history of the old house, or believe it might be reaching long fingers out of the past to her brother...

  Vicky Bliss #2 Every Breath You Take When Vicky Bliss, historian and amateur sleuth, gets a plane ticket to Sweden from her sometimes lover, sometimes nemesis John Smythe, she uses it...if only to get the chance to thwart whatever scheme he's up to. But when it becomes apparent to them both they're not the only players in the game, and the new participants have a dangerous streak, what's at stake isn't just an ancient buried treasure...it's their lives.