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Books Released in 2005!

from Heather Graham

GHOST WALK
Paperback - 400 pages
October 2005 (On Sale September 27, 2005)
Mira Books; ISBN: 0-778-32218-1

THIS IS NO DREAM...

Ghost WalkNikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer informs her that Andy was brutally murdered—at the exact time Nikki swears the distraught woman was in her room.

No one believes her except Brent Blackhawk, a paranormal investigator desperately trying to forget his tragic past. Half Irish, half Lakota—and able to communicate with the dead—Brent is used to living in two worlds. But when he realizes the ghost of a slain government agent is also trying to reach out to Nikki, he knows that she, too, must listen to the dead...if she wants to keep living.

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SUSPICIOUS
Silhouette Intimate Moments #1379
Paperback - 250 pages
August 2005
Silhouette Books; ISBN: 0-373-27449-1

suspiciousBig-city lawyer Lorena Fortier's suspicions about her father's death brought her to a small Florida town nestled in the Everglades. Then whoever—or whatever—had killed her father started claiming more victims, and Lorena knew she was in over her head. Sinfully attractive Jesse Crane only complicated matters. Still reeling from his wife's brutal murder, the hardened cop plunged into the perilous investigation, and Lorena knew the evidence would lead him straight to her....

As they faced a danger more menacing than any they had ever imagined, Lorena needed to put her life in Jesse's hands. Could she do the same with her heart and hope that a man who had once loved and lost would learn to love again...before time ran out?

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March 2005
First Time in Print!

Killing Kelly

MIRA Books | Hardcover Original
March 2005 | ISBN 0-7783-2159-2

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Playing Marla Valentine, the malicious, man-hating advice diva on a popular daytime soap, actress Kelly Trent has garnered wealth, fame—and more than her fair share of hate mail. She doesn't believe anyone would confuse her with Marla, but when an accident on set hits too close for the producers' comfort, Kelly's character is unceremoniously put on hiatus.

Confused, angry and more than a little hurt, Kelly reluctantly agrees to appear in a music video. Besides, the time away from filming on the secluded island in the Florida Keys might be just the thing to put her job—and her life—in perspective. But with two left feet, Kelly only hopes sexy dance instructor Doug O'Casey can work miracles...

A former Miami cop, Doug still has a lawman's instinct for trouble. The murder of several top advice therapists, along with some deadly threats made against Kelly by a deranged fan, tell Doug that Kelly is in danger. And after two more nearly fatal "accidents," he's almost got her convinced. Now, as an obsessed killer closes in, Doug realizes that someone close to Kelly wants more than her character killed off the show—someone wants her stone-cold dead. But that someone hasn't counted on the fact that for Doug, the job has gotten personal.

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In Stores February 2005
First Time in Paperback!

New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham choreographs a sexy thriller of passion and murder....

Dead on the Dance Floor

MIRA Books| Mass Market Paperback
February 2005 | ISBN 0-7783-2137-1
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MIRA Books | Hardcover Original
March 2004 | ISBN 0-7783-2027-8
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Accomplished dancer Lara Trudeau drops dead of a heart attack brought on by a lethal combination of booze and pills. To former private investigator Quinn O'Casey, it's a simple case of death by misadventure. But when his brother Doug, a Miami-Dade patrolman, asks for help, he can't refuse. Especially when he learns that Lara and Doug—a student at the Moonlight Sonata dance studio where Lara occasionally taught—were having an affair. And despite Quinn's lack of interest in the case and even less in dancing, experience has taught him not to count on the obvious when it comes to murder.

Going undercover as a dance student, Quinn meets studio manager Shannon Mackay, a beautiful, graceful woman who has left world-class competition to teach. He also uncovers some disturbing facts. Everyone there had a reason to hate Lara Trudeau, a woman as ruthless as she was talented. As a drama of broken hearts, shattered dreams and tangled motives unfolds, Quinn begins looking for a killer.

In a city where pleasure drugs are a fast and dangerous high, Quinn is alarmed by the growing number of deaths due to overdoses, illegal substances and execution-style shootings connected to the Moonlight Sonata. Shannon, too, has begun to wonder if strange events surrounding the studio have a deeper source. She suspects she's being followed. Worse, she fears someone may be trying to kill her.

Shannon is about to discover the risks she is willing to take a fight for what she wants—to dance, to compete again, to share her life with Quinn. Yet someone has another plan for her, a dangerous shadow figure made all the more deadly by wearing the face of a friend. But someone just hadn't counted on Quinn O'Casey—a man who doesn't give up and never backs down, especially when it comes to protecting the woman he loves.

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from Shannon Drake

On Sale August 30th

reckless
September 2005
Original Hardcover
HGN Books | ISBN 0-373-77061-8

When Kat Adair plunges into the waves to rescue a drowning man, it is just the beginning of an odyssey that will sweep the fisherman's daughter on an adventure of danger and desire. Convinced she is in love with the man she saved, Egyptologist David Turnberry, she plots a bout of "amnesia" that enables her to linger among the highborn, hoping to win David's heart away from his betrothed! The only problem is Hunter MacDonald, rugged archaeologist, bold adventurer, a man who is wise to her little charade—and determined to protect his best friend.

Undaunted, Kat stows away on the ship carrying David and Hunter's expedition party to the land of the Pharaoh. Scandal ensues, and Hunter vows the only way to protect his friend and keep this confounding woman out of trouble is to make her his wife. Inevitably, in the sultry heat of the desert, passions ignite. But as the secrets of the ancient tombs are revealed, terrible danger unfolds. Is it a legendary curse, or pure human evil? Plunged into terror, Kat must trust the one man willing to risk everything to save her from doom.

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wicked
April 2005
Mass Market Paperback
HGN Books | ISBN 0-3737-733-2

THE EARL WAS KNOWN AS A BEAST

Camille Montgomery is aware of the wicked man's reputation. But as an expert in antiquities, she also knows his family's Egyptian artifacts are the finest in England. The problem is, her wayward stepfather knows this, too—and he's determined to steal them. So when he's caught in the act of robbing the so-called Beast of Carlyle, Camille must swallow her fear and boldly confront the man whose mask is said to hide a face to behold.

The Earl of Carlyle has lived in the shadows ever since the suspicious death of his parents. But he's never stopped trying to unravel the mystery behind what he suspects to have been their murder. And now that the lovely Camille has stumbled into his life, he has the perfect pawn for his deadly game of vengeance and deceit. But in laying his ruthless trap, will he risk losing his own heart?

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Author comments Wicked and Reckless: The time period is Victorian, and they're based on that era, and fairy tales, the first being Snow White from the Step Mother's point of view, then Beauty and the Beast, and then Little Mermaid. There will definitely be one more in the Victorian period.


January 2005

Dead by Dusk

January 2005
Zebra Books | ISBN 0-8217-7545-6

The rustic oceanfront village of Bella Vista seems like something from an Italian postcard—until young women start disappearing, only to be found horribly mutilated. The police fear a sexual serial killer is at work—something to be hushed up to keep the tourists calm. But the fear in the eyes of the locals says it all: the murders are starting again...

For American Stephanie Cahill, Bella Vista is a new beginning—a chance to put her painful past behind her. Yet, from the moment to first body is discovered at the site of an archeological dig, Stephanie feels as if she's being watched, followed, studied...hunted.

Archeologist Grant Petersen senses something odd about this dig, something that has him locking his door at night. And now, the echoes of a burial site's ancient legend can be found in the chilling signature of a killer on the loose.

The powerful attraction between Stephanie and Grant is a complication neither can afford as they are pulled into a desperate race against time to keep Stephanie from joining the ranks of the missing. For nothing in Bella Vista is what it seems. No one can be trusted. And those closest to Stephanie may prove the most dangerous of all...

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"A deft mix of history, romance and suspense..."
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