Joy: 1603 books

**Previously published as VANISHED IN VENICE**   The cross is the key to a priceless treasure...will it secure their future, or doom them forever? One year after being shot in Italy, Rachel Sanders travels to Venice in search of the jeweled cross that triggered a heartbreaking family betrayal....

She loved him and left him, but fate had other plans... Nine months ago, undercover detective, Ispettore Evalina Gallo, protected her heart the only way she knew how, never expecting to see her savior-turned-one-night-stand again. When he returns to Italia—now a person of interest in an investigation...

Imagine you’ve lived before, but don’t remember or believe it’s even possible. Therein lies the danger. For in not believing and learning from your pasts, the power shifts to the one who would see you dead. Again. Ryan James never gave much thought to ghosts or the idea of reincarnation—until...

Sweet twenty-seven and never been kissed. Well…no one’s ever accused Marley Wade of being sweet. Raised in the world of construction by a strict father, Marley knows what it takes to succeed as a general contractor in a man’s world. The last thing she needs is an employee who makes her feel...

When a kiss... All reporter Sadie Barton wants is to be taken seriously and judged on her own merits, not her stepfather’s money. She and her actress sister left Wisconsin to get out from under his controlling thumb and leave behind the malicious whispers that they’re no better than their...

THE CHOCOLATE EFFECT By Joy Bassetti Kruger A mystery, as well as a love story with a touch of fantasy. When Edward visits the chocolate factory in Philipolis, the manager offers him some coffee foandant cream chocolates to eat while they are having their coffee. But...

Tanya is terrified of her first meeting with her boyfriend's mother, Mrs. Robinson. She's beautiful, clever, imposing, and utterly confident - but what Tanya doesn't expect is that she also has many perverse and lustful desires that are aimed directly in Tanya's direction. Soon Tanya finds herself falling...

Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler’s captivating historical novel—a New York Times Notable Book. When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to...

An early work from PEN/Faulkner Award winner and Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler, reissued and beautifully repackaged for new fans and old. First published in 1998 to high praise, and now reissued with the addition of a prefatory essay, Black Glass showcases the extraordinary talents of...

First collection since the success of The Jane Austen Book Club brought Karen Joy Fowler to a whole new readership. Contains two Nebula Award winners: "Always" and "What I Didn't See." First collection since World Fantasy Award winning collection Black Glass. Like...

This “delightful and eccentric new tale”(The Boston Globe) from the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club subverts the whodunit and gives us a thoroughly modern meta-mystery with wit, warmth, and heart. At loose ends and weary from her recent losses—the deaths of an inventive...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

I like to pretend I hide the bodies where she won't find them, buried deep after she brings them eternal sleep    but  she screams so beautifully each time they are found I can't stop my obsession with the sound. She should have known her victims never stay in the ground long. Not when I love hearing her caterwaul.

“I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty . . .” At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother...