July 2011 On Sale: July 5, 2011 Featuring: Gabriel St. James; Charity 400 pages ISBN: 0451234006 EAN: 9780451234001 Paperback $7.99  Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Summer love One Summer by JoAnn Ross When former U.S. Marine photojournalist Gabriel St. James arrives in Shelter Bay to help out a fellow Marine, the last thing he expects is to meet a woman like Charity. A veterinarian with a past that would have defeated a less resilient woman, Charity still possesses a heart as generous Gabriel St. James has never found a reason to stay in one place until he reaches Shelter Bay. Family and passion is Ms. Ross trademark for assuring us Excerpt Chapter 1 After having spent over a decade in war zones and other hot spots around the globe, Gabriel St. James was an expert at zeroing in on a shot Read More… Previous Picks

I’ve written four previous romantic suspense novels set among the Amish, and FALL FROM PRIDE begins a new trilogy.  Why do I like to use the Amish for my novels?  And what makes Amish books popular today? Let me try to answer that second question first and hope some of you “fabulous Fresh Fiction aficionados” are willing to weigh in on this. I think Amish novels are popular today partly because of good old curiosity.  We want to know how these “separate” people cope with the modern world when they chose not to be completely part of it.  It is said the Amish live “on” America, not “in” it.  Of course, for us modern readers, there is always the lure of nostalgia when we see the Amish way of life:  buggies, pioneer-style dress and hair; huge farms with horses pulling plows.  But I think there is a deeper reason modern, high-tech Americans are intrigued by the Plain People. The more high-stress and impersonal our lives become, the better the Amish look.  Their days are not run by the internet—not even phones, though some of them use cell phones for business.  No lines snake into their homes to tie them to…