SHADOW AND SILK writing as Ann Maxwell (reissue in e-book format)
E-book
Amazon ASIN: B006TM9H0M
Barnes & Noble ID: 2940013812178
Publisher: Two of A Kind, Inc
Pub Date: January 2012
Sometimes you have to risk your life to save it.
That was the choice facing Danielle Warren late one night on the streets of Lhasa. With a dead man in front of her, a living one shooting at her—and the hand of a stranger held out to her in the darkness.
When Dani grabs Shane’s hand, he lifts her into a world of intrigue, danger, and love that she had never known before.
Shane Crowe was prepared for everything but his response to Dani’s honesty. And her sensuality. Shaped in war, honed in battle, searching for peace in Lhasa’s ancient monastery, he is again thrust into the line of fire.
Together Shane and Dani search for a fragile silk relic that has become the prize in an international tug of war. But to find it, they have to stay alive long enough to learn to trust themselves, each other, and love.
Originally published January 1997 by Zebra Books, writing as Ann Maxwell.
GOLDEN EMPIRE writing as A.E. Maxwell (reissue in e-book format)
E-book
Amazon ASIN: B006CWJ3GC
Barnes & Noble ID: 2940013453166
Publisher: Two of A Kind, Inc
Pub Date: December 2011
Leander Champion Buckles III was a someone no man ever ignored, or any woman failed to notice. Cira Pico McCartney was an innocent beauty. Though they couldn’t marry, their love for each other set off a chain reaction of hatred, envy, and revenge that changed the course of California’s history.
Through the years, Lee’s and Cira’s children built an empire. Yet the past is never truly past, and the next generation’s intertwined lives and passions threaten to destroy the Buckles empire—and themselves. In time they discover that only love can save them and the land they call the Golden Empire.
BONUS: This novel has been revised and edited by Elizabeth Lowell and includes excerpts from two additional historical novels, GOLDEN MOUNTAIN and REDWOOD EMPIRE.
Originally published December 1979 by Fawcett Books, writing as A.E. Maxwell.
REDWOOD EMPIRE writing as A.E. Maxwell (reissue in e-book format)
E-book
Amazon ASIN: B006CWIQOW
Barnes & Noble ID: 2940013453159
Publisher: Two of A Kind, Inc
Pub Date: December 2011
At her mother’s grave, Maya vowed that her children would never know the hunger she and her sisters had faced. What Maya didn’t know was the price of redeeming that vow.
Hale Hawthorne was a ruthless man who had gained success at the price of his gentler, human side. As his wife, Maya and her children would be secure. Yet Hale’s son Will had made Maya his. In one wild afternoon, he taught her the depths of her own sensuality, and his.
Maya chose a secure future for her unborn children. Will vowed revenge.
Together they tested the boundaries of hate, forgiveness, and love.
BONUS: This novel has been revised and edited by Elizabeth Lowell and includes excerpts from two additional historical novels, GOLDEN MOUNTAIN and GOLDEN EMPIRE.
Originally published 1987 under Harlequin Historicals #267, writing as A.E. Maxwell.
GOLDEN MOUNTAIN writing as A.E. Maxwell (reissue in e-book format)
E-book
Amazon ASIN: B006CWJ0AQ
Barnes & Noble ID: 2940013453142
Publisher: Two of A Kind, Inc
Pub Date: December 2011
In the 1890s, Seattle was a raw city suspended between the modern power of the East Coast and the ancient power of China.
Cassandra Thornton was a rarity among young women—unmarried, self-supporting, independent. Innocent. In one day her life changed.
Jared Duran was a compelling man of intense passion, discipline, and intelligence. He told Cass that her unknown half-sister, Tea Rose, was being kept captive in a Chinatown pleasure house, and offered to help her free Tea Rose from her silk-lined slavery.
Kingston Duran was Jared’s brother. Like Jay, King had deep passion, but all he truly loved was the quest for gold. Yet women found the wildness in him irresistible.
Both men wanted Cass.
Tea Rose was a child, but she was no innocent. Trained in the arts of the “flowery battle” between Yin and Yang, woman and man, she had learned that sexuality was a weapon. And she used it well.
The tangled lives of the Durans and the Thorntons led them from the gutters of Seattle to the savagery of the Klondike gold strike—and to an understanding of the many kinds of love.
BONUS: This novel has been revised and edited by Elizabeth Lowell and includes excerpts from two additional historical novels, GOLDEN EMPIRE and REDWOOD EMPIRE.
Originally published December 1990 by Pocket Books, writing as Annalise Sun.
EDEN BURNING (reissue)
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10: 0380789957
ISBN-13: 978-0380789955
Publisher: Avon Books
Pub Date: November 2011
This is a reprint with new cover from October 2002 mass market paperback.
Paradise calls to Chase Wilcox. A man of science fascinated by the rebirth of life in the wake of cataclysmic natural upheaval, he is drawn to the lush beauty of the island of Hawaii and the secrets it holds—while escaping the destruction of his own personal world. Here where warm breezes caress the skin and vibrant colors assault the senses—and where
dangerous fires rate unseen beneath the earth’s surface—Chase plans to immerse himself in his work. . .and somehow heal and forget. The last thing he needs or wants is love.
But the island is home to many unexpected wonders, which is why Nicole Ballard could never leave it. A research assistant, an artist, and a dancer—a tall, stunning redhead who goes by the stage name of Pele, the goddess of fire—she, too, hides a secret pain, releasing her pent-up sensuality to the accompaniment of native drums before a mesmerized audience. Nicole has never met a man quite like Chase, strong, intense, and brilliant. And he, in turn, is fascinated by this remarkable woman who seems to be a breathtaking force of nature in her own right. Fate has cast them together, causing a chain reaction that neither imagined in their most secret dreams.
Joined on an important scientific project that carries them into the verdant heart of a tropical wonderland, Nicole and Chase will be forced to confront their own lingering inner darkness, while resisting a newly inflamed need to touch, to give...to care. But in the shadows of Kilauea, all restraints will be broken, as emotions flow as hot and free as rivers of molten lava. And desire will erupt, as unpredictable and dangerous as the living volcano, transforming the very landscape of their lives—a torrent that no power on earth can contain, a passion that burns like fire.
Revised/rewritten edition of Fires of Eden — Silhouette Intimate Moments #141, 05/86.
DESERT RAIN (reissue)
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10: 0380767627
ISBN-13: 978-0380767625
Publisher: Avon Books
Pub Date: October 2011
Holly: She is a fragile innocent haunted by memories of her past and by dreams of the man who once shared her secrets...the only man she can ever truly love.
Shannon: One of the world’s great beauties, her face and figure grace the fashion pages of the most elegant magazines. Though many desire her, only one may have her.
Holly Shannon North: She is a contradiction: assured yet vulnerable, irresistible yet untouched. Destiny has brought her back to Hidden Springs, where she can be one person, where romance once touched her tender young heart—back to Lincoln McKenzie, the proud California rancher, long since hardened by life’s tragedies. Now, in the icy chill of a desert storm, they must find the way back to love together—to rekindle the fire whose healing warmth has drawn them home.
Originally published in September 1996, however, this title was a revised/rewritten edition of SUMMER THUNDER — Silhouette Desire #77, 1983.
CHAIN LIGHTNING (reissue)
Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0727880128
ISBN-13: 978-0727880123
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Pub Date: June 2011
Strangers in paradise . . .
Mandy Blythe is only scared of three things: water, boats, and planes. So she’s not best pleased when her interfering boss tricks her into taking an Australian vacation in the company of the womanizing Damon Sutter, who’s left a string of broken hearts across several continents.
Damon just wants to explore the Great Barrier Reef and keep his association with Mandy strictly business. But the tropics are a different world, and paradise is only a heartbeat away . . .
Originally published in Silhouette Intimate Moments® #256, 12/88.
DEATH ECHO
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10: 0061664421
ISBN-13: 978-0061664427
Publisher: Avon
Pub Date: February 2011
Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0061629758
ISBN-13: 978-0061629754
Publisher: William Morrow
Pub Date: June 2010
Emma Cross left the CIA because she wanted to lead a "normal" life. A quiet one, investigating things that weren't life or death. St. Kilda Consulting put her to work investigating the theft of a yacht. What could be less urgent than the loss of a rich man's toy?
MacKenzie Durand walked away from a career in the military after bad intel cost the life of everyone on his special ops team except himself. He was tired of life or death situations where death won. Now his biggest worry is taking yachts from Seattle to a boat dealer in Rosario, Washington.
Then Emma and Mac find themselves neck deep in mirror-image yachts, international gangsters, and things worse than simple murder. Before they know it, they are back in the world they thought they left behind, fighting for their lives.
MIDNIGHT IN RUBY BAYOU (reissue)
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10: 0380789892
ISBN-13: 978-0380789894
Publisher: Avon Books
Pub Date: June 2010
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Faith Donovan is famous for crafting exquisite jewellery studded with fabulous gems. But the dangerous task of acquiring the rare rubies she needs for her art has taught Faith to be wary of anyone outside her own family—especially someone like Owen Walker, an adventurer with an intimate knowledge of the ruby trade and man's murderous greed. But now necessity has thrown them together, as they venture into the shadowy world of the wealthy and mysterious Montegeaus in search of quality stones.
A powerful Georgia clan descended from pirates, the Montegeaus are said to possess a staggering fortune in gems, hidden for generations in the legendary Blessing Chest. In the living shadows of historic Ruby Bayou. Faith and Walker are soon drawn into a terrifying web of corruption and betrayal, and haunted by the dark, unfolding secrets of the Montegeaus past and present. For there are those who would kill for the contents of the Blessing Chest. And now two outsiders who have learned too much stand in the way . . .
Originally published June 2000 in hardcover and May 2001 in mass market paperback.
FORGET ME NOT (reissue)
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10: 0380767597
ISBN-13: 978-0380767595
Publisher: Avon Books
Pub Date: April 2010
The terrible tragedy Alana Reeves suffered on Wyoming's Broken Mountain has vanished from her memory. Now nothing remains of those six lost days that cost her everything she held dear. But a man has appeared from the shadows of Alana's past—a rugged outdoorsman who once dwelt in a wounded heart he is now sworn to heal. Like an answered prayer, Rafe Winter has come to lead Alana out of the darkness—and back to the scene of the nightmare she has erased from her mind. Alana must follow him—for in Rafe's powerful arms her fears can be conquered, and through his love hers can be reborn.
Origianlly published in Silhouette Intimate Moments #72 in October 1984 and then by Avon in a revised mass market paperback edition in December 1994.
JUST ENOUGH LIGHT TO KILL (writing as A.E. Maxwell) A Fiddler & Fiora Novel #4
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 1935415026
ISBN-13: 978-1935415022
Publisher: Busted Flush Press
Pub Date: February 2010
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When an American customs agent who once saved his life dies a suspicious death on the U.S.-Mexico border, Fiddler heads south to investigate the death.
Originally published by Doubleday in hardcover, 1988.
GATSBY'S VINEYARD (writing as A.E. Maxwell) A Fiddler & Fiora Novel #3
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 1935415018
ISBN 978-1935415015
Publisher: Busted Flush Press
Pub Date: November , 2009
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While visiting his old flame, a vineyard owner in Napa Valley, Fiddler and his gorgeous ex-wife, Fiora, investigate some mysterious disturbances in the vineyards, and the duo must catch the culprits.
Originally published by Doubleday in hardcover, 1987.
THE FROG AND THE SCORPION (writing as A.E. Maxwell) A Fiddler & Fiora Novel #2
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 193541500X
ISBN-13: 978-1935415008
Publisher: Busted Flush Press
Pub Date: June 2009
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Another enticing mystery in the series featuring the popular divorced P.I. duo. Fiddler is happy staying home in southern California, watching the sun set over the Pacific, sparring with his ex-wife Fiora. So why does he find himself suddenly caught in the crossfire between a Jewish Iranian banker and a group of Muslim extremists?
Originally published by Doubleday in hardcover, 1986.
BLUE SMOKE AND MURDER First Time in Paperback
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10: 0060829869
ISBN-13: 978-0060829865
Publisher: Avon
Pub Date: April 2009
Jill Breck was just doing her job as a river guide when she saved the life of Lane Faroe, son of two of St. Kilda's Consulting's premier operators. But when a string of ominous events—including a mysterious fire that kills her great aunt and a furor in the Western art world raised by a dozen Breck family paintings—culminate in a threat to her life, Jill reluctantly calls in a favor.
Zach Balfour works part-time as a consultant for St. Kilda. His expertise is gathering and analyzing information from unlikely and often dangerous sources. Though he's got the skills to be a highly effective bodyguard, being a bullet catcher isn't his preferred way to spend time.
Protecting Jill will take him into familiar territory—among a strange, savagely competitive bunch of collectors who'll do anything to stay at the top. But Jill is in deeper waters than she's ever known; as she soon discovers, the perils of running wild rivers are tame compared to the hidden dangers in the high-stakes game of art collecting.
From the cozy rooms of the Breck homestead cabin to the cold multi-million dollar galleries of the Western art circuit, Zach and Jill must race against time to unmask a ruthless killer hidden in a blue smoke of money, threats, lies, and death . . .
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE (reissue)
(writing as A.E. Maxwell) The First Fiddler & Fiora Novel
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 0979270960
ISBN-13: 978-0979270963
Publisher: Busted Flush Press
Pub Date: March 2009
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Divorced Fiddler and Fiora get along better than most married couples. When U.S. Customs Department agents start grilling Fiora's twin brother about his involvement in the Silicon Valley export business, the pair swings into action to save Danny from the Feds, his nemesis—and himself.
Originally published by Doubleday in hardcover, 1985.
