Rio, a member of an elite, family-run task force, is enlisted to protect a desperate woman with an extraordinary ability to heal others.

In the Carpathian Mountains, the bodyguard Joie Sanders encounters Traian, an ageless hunter locked in a life-and-death battle against vampires; includes the Carpathian short story “Dark Dream.”

Attempting to rescue their leader, outlaws cause a train accident in the Rockies. As the Jensens and MacCallisters frantically make their way to the scene, Matt Jensen struggles to help the survivors.

Harry Dresden, the wizard detective in Chicago, has been murdered. But that doesn’t stop him when his friends are in danger.

A matchmaker assigns Cassie Beaumont three tasks before revealing her perfect mate; includes the 1998 story “Can This Be Christmas?”

Battle Ridge, Wyo., seems like a good place for Carlin Reed to lie low. But after becoming cook and housekeeper to the cattle rancher Zeke Decker, Carlin suspects she’s made her first mistake.

Dirk Pitt seeks a tie between a trove of ancient Roman artifacts and a series of mosque explosions.

Jesse Stone, the chief of police in Paradise, Mass., confronts an outbreak of murders; a continuation of the series by Parker, who died in 2010.

The New York lawyer Stone Barrington gets to know his teenage son and proposes to the boy’s mother.

Charley Castillo investigates a deadly biohazard that he thought had been destroyed.

The president summons the New York lawyer Stone Barrington to Washington to undertake a special investigation that reunites him with his former partner Holly Barker.

Prince Trehan, a master assassin, will do anything to possess the beautiful sorceress Bettina — even compete in a blood-sport tournament.

A criminal wants to save an innocent man on death row, but he must convince the authorities he’s telling the truth.

Someone is murdering entire families — recreating in detail a crime spree that took place two decades earlier — and a homicide detective is certain that his own family will be targets.

Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets.

When the youngest Sharpe sister hatches a plan to gain marriage offers, a strait-laced Bow Street Runner vows to ruin her scheme.

Book 10 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

Phineas devotes his undead life to hunting evil vampires. He thought New York was tough, but he’s got his work cut out for him when he learns that the enemy may be in Wyoming.

The strong-willed Olivia Lytton is betrothed to the Duke of Canterwick — hardly a Prince Charming — but she’s drawn to her sister’s future husband, the brooding Duke of Sconce.

Nathan Kelly, part of an elite, family-run task force, tries to save a telepathic woman from a government group that wants to harness her ability to heal.

Athena College’s writer in residence is murdered, and the librarian Charlie Harris, whose daughter is a prime suspect, races to find the killer.

For the bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright, the chance to restore a rare first edition of “Beauty and the Beast” seems like a fairy tale come true — until she discovers that the book is at the center of two unsolved murders.

On Valentine’s Day the D’Artigo sisters — half human, half Fae — get unsettling news: the evil coyote shifters are back, and their new leader has joined forces with a group of rogue sorcerers.

An exotic dancer searching for her missing sister enlists the help of a former Army Ranger on the trail of an elusive drug lord.

An anthology of Guild Hunter novellas: “Angels’ Pawn,” “Angels’ Judgment,” “Angels’ Wolf” and “Angels’ Dance.”

The New York lawyer Stone Barrington becomes involved in the family problems of a billionaire hedge fund manager.

In the final volume of the Parasol Protectorate series, Alexia Tarabotti’s domestic bliss in London ends when she’s summoned to Egypt by a vampire queen.

Mac arrives in Spellbound Falls just in time to save Olivia from an aggressive suitor, only to find himself attracted to the beautiful widow.

Lisa Madison wants a husband, and she has just the candidate in mind: Robert Langley. But he saw enough sorrow in his parents’ union to know he wants nothing to do with marriage.

The library director Lindsey Norris faces a baffling whodunit after a murder is committed in her cozy hometown, Briar Creek.