"Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor -- a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between tow Russian mafia bosses...

Miranda Clifford, who leads a life of rigid respectability, turns to Neville Roscoe, ruler of London's gambling underworld, for help in finding her missing brother, only to find herself attracted to this disreputable man.

Ellie Vyne finds her secret identity as a mysterious French count who steals from the rich by cheating at cards nearly discovered when her childhood nemesis, James Hartley, investigates after she wins his family jewelry.

A prim, well-bred gentlewoman, Sara Fielding is a writer who puts pen to paper to create dreams. But now curiosity is luring her from the shelter of her country cottage into the dangerous world of Derek Craven, handsome, tough, tenacious, and the most exciting man Sara has ever met. Derek rose from poverty to become the wealthy lord of London's most exclusive gambling house. And now duty demands that he allow Sara Fielding to enter his perilous realm...

"If there's one thing John Slocum likes more than whiskey or women, it's winning big in poker. Until a cheater runs off with his money and is killed, getting Slocum arrested for murder. His neck is saved when a British beauty named Abigail Cheswick springs him from jail--and into the folds of her skirt. Soon, he's at the Cheswick camp and Abigail's brother, the arrogant Lord William, wants him to catch wild game worthy of mounting on his royal walls....

"From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog, a fierce, elegant, page-turning novel about race, money, and the American Dream JW is a small-town banker. His specialty: teaching other bankers in towns near Indian reservations how to profit from casino deposits without exposing themselves to risk. His problem: having lost his son in a car accident a year ago, JW is depressed, his wife is leaving him, and he can't stop gambling....

Mike Taggart has always been willing to take a gamble. But these stakes are just way too high--there's no way he's prepared to become a legal guardian to his five-year-old niece. His only option is to head from Las Vegas to Last Chance to sort things out as quickly as possible. Problem is, he arrives to find an inconsolable little girl, her sick cat, and a gorgeous veterinarian he can't get out of his mind. Charlene Polk has two talents: healing sick...

When a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino jackpot dies in a house fire, all bets are off as deputy coroner Mattie Winston and detective Scott Hurley, convinced that he was murdered for his money, take a gamble on the wrong suspect.

"Dealer's Choice" On the day after Easter, a woman enters Detective Marlow's office, determined to have his help in settling her brother's gambling troubles. It isn't long, however, before Marlow becomes quite sure that this woman is not who she first appeared to be.… "Lily and the Sockeyes" Bestselling author Sara Paretsky uses professional baseball as the setting for this suspenseful mystery.

The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but...