Sparks fly between the owner of a Death Valley gem mine and an Australian adventurer in this classic romance by a New York Times–bestselling author. Reba Farrall was lost—until a kindly old gentleman took her under his wing and helped heal her shattered spirit. Now her dearest friend is gone, leaving her with a doubting, broken heart...and half-interest in a California gem mine. But Chance Walker has burst into Reba’s life—a daring adventurer who believes in nothing except the priceless uncut stones for which he searches the Earth. In the blistering heat of Death Valley—in the intoxicating presence of a jewel more exquisite than any he has ever seen—Chance must confront a dire peril that stalks the sad and sensuous beauty. For only he can save Reba Farrall from harm—and only she can teach him how to love. Praise for Elizabeth Lowell “Lowell is great!” —Joanna Lindsey “Lowell is romance.” —Amanda Quick

Second chances aren't easy. Sometimes, it takes some Rough Love. Bruce Tannen is known as Brutal from his days as a monster on the football field. But now, he's a farmhand on what used to be his family's land, and change is all around him. New family. New expectations. New friends. It's all fine by him until he runs into the one woman to ever hold his heart. Allyson left him a lifetime ago, but she's the only thing that's ever felt right. In his arms, in his heart, and in his life. Something's different, though. She's a shadow of her former self, and he wonders what could've dulled her shine. He can help fight her demons and bring back her sunny smile, but should he? Allyson Meyers had her life all figured out, but a wrong turn took her on a journey she never imagined. Not even in her worst nightmares. But she's stronger now for the one person who matters... her son, Cooper. Being a single mother is a burden she's grateful to bear alone until she sees a pair of all-too-familiar broad shoulders and dark, knowing eyes that remind her of who she once was. Bruce was the one she'd left behind. The path she should've taken. It's too bad you can't rewrite history. But if she's brave enough, can they create a new future? Can Bruce open his heart to the one that shattered it in the first place? And can Allyson blend who she is now with who she used to be, and live the happily ever after she should've had? Rough Love is a full-length Romance with an HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhanger. It can be read as a standalone.

For a limited time at a special price, enjoy New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell's stirring romance, Lover in the Rough, along with the first four chapters from her upcoming new book, Beautiful Sacrifice, on sale May 22, 2012. Reba Farrall was lost—until a kindly old gentleman took her under his wing and helped heal her shattered spirit. Now her dearest friend is gone, leaving her with a doubting, broken heart . . . and half-interest in a California gem mine. But Chance Walker has burst into Reba's life—a daring adventurer who believes in nothing except the priceless uncut stones for which he searches the Earth. In the blistering heat of Death Valley—in the intoxicating presence of a jewel more exquisite than any he has ever seen—Chance must confront a dire peril that stalks the sad and sensuous beauty. For only he can save Reba Farrall from harm—and only she can teach him how to love.

A veteran songwriter presents a selection of sixty of rock music's greatest songs in their original, hand-scrawled rough drafts, accompanied by interviews with the songwriters who reveal the stories behind the songs.

The narrator arrives in Berlin, a place famed for its hedonism, to find peace and maybe love; only to discover that the problems which have long haunted him have arrived there too, and are more present than ever. As he approaches his fortieth birthday, nearing the age where his father was killed in a brutal revolution, he drifts through this endlessly addictive and sometimes mystical city, through its slow days and bottomless nights, wondering whether he will ever escape the damage left by his father's death. With the world as a whole more uncertain, as both the far-right and global temperatures rise at frightening speed, he finds himself fighting a fierce inner battle against his turbulent past, for a future free of his fear of failure, of persecution, and of intimacy. In The End, It Was All About Love is a journey of loss and self-acceptance that takes its nameless narrator all the way through bustling Berlin to his roots, a quiet village on the Uganda-Sudan border. It is a bracingly honest story of love, sexuality and spirituality, of racism, dating, and alienation; of fleeing the greatest possible pain, and of the hopeful road home.

Fourteen-year-old Dymond finds herself the only one in her crew without a boyfriend, until Kyle Banks comes along and she finds herself lying to her mother in order to be with him.

I thought I had everything: a devoted husband, and a magnificent new house for us to start a family in. But the house had secrets. The former owner, whose stern portrait hangs in the library -- I swear I can feel him watching me. Touching me. Wanting me. I could convince myself it was all in my mind until I found out my husband cheated on me...but now, all bets are off. Rough Ghost Lover is a sizzling romantic horror that does not have an HEA...because sleeping with ghosts is dangerous.