Misfortune after misfortune befalls a young woman who inherits a priceless jewel that was stolen from a Hindu shrine by a plundering ancestor. London detective Sergeant Cuff is hired to solve the mystery.

"Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while...

Julia Elkins accompanies Grady Bowman to Rangoon and the annual Gem Emporium, only to find their journey has become intertwined with a bloody incident carried out decades before.

Sometime CIA operative Max Benedict is paired with former lover and FBI special agent, Kristin Lassiter, to investigate a foreign threat against the president in London. What Max doesn't know is that Kristin has her own secrets to keep.

"Princess Sparkle loves glittery, shimmery things. She is shocked when she finds that the world outside her palace is often not beautiful at all. Something must be done!"--P. [4] of cover.

From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series, comes a new mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at disguise and violent when he needs to be. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets only the .1% and is willing to kill when necessary: He despises the degenerate and immoral possessors of the objects that he steals. In this series launch, Riley targets an extraordinary set of crown jewels, a heist that...

Cartographer John Graf, shunned by his Amish community for pursuing higher education, becomes embroiled in a mystery when the remains of 17th-century mapmaker Cellarius, the subject of centuries-old conjecture, emerge from a German bog. The discovery of his corpse and a ruby clutched in his death grip gives credence to the existence of the fabled Tavernier Stones, a cache of the world's most prized missing jewels. Graf joins forces with a gemologist-turned-grifter...

Releasing five dragon-demons called Drakhaouls in his efforts to seize control of an ancient empire, a man discovers that his hold over the empire is crumbling as a rival nation searches for a true innocent capable of banishing the dragon-demons.

When Trixie looks for an uncommon shroud for her greatest show ever in Ponyville, a mishap gives Trixie the capacity to transform standard things into valuable gems just by touching them, which turns out to be more inconvenience than it's worth.

Kagome is an ordinary modern schoolgirl living an ordinary life. Who would have thought the dried-up old well on the site of her family's shrine would be a gateway to Japan's ancient past? Drawn through the gate against her will, Kagome finds herself battling demons for control of what she thought was a worthless trinket but is actually a powerful magical gem, the Shikon Jewel! Together with an unlikely ally, the half demon Inuyasha, Kagome begins...