Black Opal Books: 447 books

Backpacking through Nicaragua with her boyfriend Tom, Jamie discovers her father has actually paid him to be her bodyguard. Furious, she wants nothing more to do with him—despite the attraction they feel for each other—but before she can storm off on her own, her uncle calls with a desperate plea...

Tonya Callahan is struggling to become a jockey in the male-dominated world of Thoroughbred racing. But there is something more sinister then sexism at work at the small Southwestern track where Tonya lives with her father, a successful trainer. Just as she is about to obtain her apprentice jockey’s...

Six months ago, Joan Bowman’s fiancé, Duncan Archer, was shot during an ATF sting operation in Arizona. He’d left a message with a friend that, if anything happened to him, she was to call a certain phone number. That led her to Yonkers, New York, and Duncan’s longtime friend, Jeb Durham, who...

It’s 2038, and Tara Rivers is fourteen years old, a bit rebellious, and socially awkward. Her family has recently moved to Los Angeles from the Pacific Northwest “rogue” clusters. Tara feels alone and confused. She doesn’t have any friends here, except her cat, Xel, a sophisticated robot with...

He’s married to the woman of his dreams, but she hates him with a passion that drives him crazy… Liz hates Luke for his part in hurting her best friend Amy when he helped his best friend Gray to ditch Amy at the altar. But when Liz dares Luke to marry her, while on a drunken romp in Las...

Dan Arrow is a private detective who’s catapulted into a world he never imagined when a guy named Billy Powers dies the night before their first meeting. In the mail the next morning, Dan receives Powers’s notebook, which is full of handwritten comments and clipped articles about seemingly unrelated...

She thinks moving to a ranch will lead to the simple life she craves, but the countryside has other ideas… After divorcing her unfaithful husband, Meg Taylor buys an alpaca ranch to finally do something on her own. Almost as soon as she arrives, she meets not one, but two, handsome—and...

After five years in Africa, researching the decline of elephant populations, Kate Caraway’s project comes to a screeching halt when she shoots a poacher and is forced to leave the country. Kate and her husband travel to a friend’s ranch in Texas for a much-needed rest. But before Kate even has...

Kate Caraway hates giving lectures at the University of Illinois so much that she fears she’ll lose her mind. So, when a student, Nate Springfield, walks into her office with a story of wild horses in danger, Kate takes an immediate leave of absence. Forty-eight hours later, she arrives in Two Horse,...

Seven-year-old Sigrit’s happy and structured life in Germany ends suddenly one afternoon in 1944. With her parents dead, she is forced to travel with a woman who hates children while being taken to live with strangers. Even her fourteen-year-old brother is yanked away from her side. When the war...

Jason and Philip have just celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary. They have a four-year old daughter and the perfect marriage. Then Philip is tragically killed in an automobile accident. As Jason struggles to deal with the terrible agony of Philip’s death, he discovers that the data from one...

Elizabeth: My heart had just been splintered by the man I thought I was in love with. Betrayed by one, mislead by another. My twisted, triangle of a nightmare was over. It should be a walk in the park now…right? That’s what I thought when the clock struck twelve. I was in the arms of the...

A month after her adventures trying to track down the killer of her friend Charles Latimer, Emmeline finds herself in a car that has crashed on a lonely country road in Kent with a dead man as her companion. How did she come to find herself in this predicament? It all started with a man named Ambrose...

It’s mid-July. Former NYPD detective, Dana Cohen is very pregnant, several weeks away from her due date, and planning her wedding. Her father Sam is declining much more rapidly in the nursing home and hardly recognizes her anymore. She worries that he will never know his granddaughter. Then a phone...