Review"Fast-paced and intriguing..." -- Paula Klug for A Romance Review"Joanne Rock delivers a series full of sassy and independent heroines and hunky alpha heroes" -- Missy Andrews for Fallen Angel Reviews"Silk Confessions is wonderful. Tempest and Wesley are strong, attractive characters with serious heat between them, and the mystery works." -- Romantic Times, 4 1/2 stars, Top Pick"Sizzling chemistry with a splash of seductively intense suspense – fabulous Joanne Rock always delivers a page-turning read!" -- RITA Award winner Catherine Mann"When Joanne Rock brings you into her highly charged world, there’s no way to escape without feeling the heat." -- Cat Cody for Romance JunkiesFrom the AuthorDear Reader, As I thought about what kind of story I wanted to write for my ninth Harlequin Blaze release, I kept thinking about my very first two Blaze novels. Both stories-Silk, Lace & Videotape (Blaze # 26) and In Hot Pursuit (Blaze # 48)-took place in New York City, with cop heroes working in the same NYPD precinct in Manhattan. I love glittering, glitzy New York for its one-of-a-kind personality. I also truly admire the nobility of men and women who are called to serve and protect the people around them. So as I thought about a way to bring a sexy, suspenseful Blaze story to the page, I naturally decided to revisit a place teeming with steamy potential for Silk Confessions, the first in my ongoing WEST SIDE CONFIDENTIAL miniseries. Wesley Shaw is on the trail of a killer, but first he'll have to get past a sizzling suspect and all the mayhem she leaves in her wake. I hope you enjoy the new series as much as I loved writing it! And keep your eye on Wes's partner Vanessa Torres. Her story will be the second title in "West Side Confidential," coming in May 2005.Happy reading, Joanne Rock

Double Trouble Rancher Gabe Everett will do whatever it takes to keep Avery Culpepper in Texas until the end of the month. Even if it means inviting the beautiful single mom and her mischievous twin girls to stay on his property. Avery holds the key to saving Haven's boys ranch, but Gabe won't let his interest go beyond business. He's not a family man, and Avery needs someone who will be there for her and her daughters. Yet as the girls overrun his orderly ranch with their tea parties and girlie cuteness, Gabe finds himself softening just a little. Could a family to love be exactly what this solitary rancher needs?

Clara I lost Dax Trenton years ago. No one could tell me where he’d gone, or who took him. When my father moved us out to Southern California for a job I figured that would be the end of it. That was until the day before I started college. Dax Trenton was not only standing in my kitchen — but he was living right smack next door. He taunted me with his revolving door of women. He insisted on having me up close and far away. I tried to stay away. But does a moth really stay away from the flame? Even when he does the unthinkable, when Dax pursues — I submit. Dax She doesn’t know I recognize her. I know exactly who that very well-formed woman is that teases and torments me from her next door window. Clara Parker was my breath and everything I’d ever wanted—until she betrayed me. Now I’m out for revenge, and I will have it. All over her very creamy, soft, and supple flesh. What neither of us is expecting is to fall face first in love with one another. Or maybe we were always in love, who the hell knows? I just know that when it’s all laid out, Clara, broken or whole, will be mine. What I didn’t count on was an enemy from both our pasts showing up to break us. 

Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactlty what goes on in the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient.—The Los Angeles Times.

"MARVELOUS . . . BREATHTAKING."--The New York Times Book Review"MAILER SHINES . . . Explaining Kennedy's assassination through the flaws in Oswald's character has been attempted before, notably by Gerald Posner in Case Closed and Don Delillo in Libra. But neither handled Oswald with the kind of dexterity and literary imagination that Mailer here supplies in great force. . . . Oswald's Tale weaves a story not only about Oswald or Kennedy's death but about the culture surrounding the assassination, one that remains replete with miscomprehensions, unraveled threads and lack of resolution: All of which makes Oswald's Tale more true-to-life than any fact-driven treatise could hope to be. . . . Vintage Mailer."--The Philadelphia Inquirer"FASCINATING . . . A MASTER STORYTELLER . . . Mailer gives us our clearest, deepest view of Oswald yet. . . . Inside three pages you are utterly absorbed."--Detroit Free Press"MAILER AT HIS BEST . . . LIVELY AND CONVINCING . . . EXTREMELY LUCID . . . Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. . . . [He] has found a way to make the dry bones of KGB tapes and his own interviews stand up and perform. . . . From the American master conjurer of dark and swirling purpose, a moving reflection."--Robert StoneThe New York Review of Books"THIS IS A NARRATIVE OF TREMENDOUS ENERGY AND PANACHE; THE AUTHOR AT THE TOP OF HIS FORM."--Christopher HitchensFinancial Times"Mailer has written some pretty crazy books in his time, but this isn't one of them. Like its predecessor, Harlot's Ghost, it is the performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his own acuity."--Martin AmisThe London Sunday TimesFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

•Valentina: a teenager who ended her life with a cutter. •Marta: a mother who does not admit the atrocious act of her daughter. •Ismael: a university student who begins to lose his fears. •Lazarus del Río: Former Chief Inspector of Police, expelled and disqualified for life. What's after Valentina's suicide? Follow the investigation of Lazarus del Río and know the truth hidden after Valentina's death.  A short history of suspense very well developed. Do not stop reading until you reach the end!

The story of a young moose cow who decides to play in the sprinklers.

Be careful what you wish for. Winnie's arrival from boarding school to sunny Sydney, thrust into the sinister world of the Crone, was further from an uplifting homecoming than she could imagine. As the last Keeper of the witch-demon's stolen possession, Winnie must hide the poisonous Stone, exposed and vulnerable until she does. And her enemy is poised to break free, her swarming followers on the hunt. Legend forecasts the final chapter nears, heralding the Stone's triumphant return and the obliteration of the feeble, ailing Trinity who've stood in their way for a thousand years. But allies exist in the most unexpected places. For the first time in millennia, the Sacred Trinity are recruiting. Satan's mistress is coming to take back what's hers and just maybe, Winnie will be ready. This is no fairy tale. (Second Sacred Trinity, First: The Crone's Stone)

"An elegant and amusing account.... Anyone planning to enter a casino or place an online bet would be advised to keep this book handy." —Wall Street JournalFor the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the astonishing story of how the experts have succeeded, revolutionizing mathematics and science in the process. The house can seem unbeatable. Kucharski shows us just why it isn't. Even better, he demonstrates how the search for the perfect bet has been crucial for the scientific pursuit of a better world.