New York Times bestselling writing duo, Charles Todd, will be speak at the National World War I Museum on Tuesday, September 20th at 7 PM. The event will be broadcasted online live from the museum. Charles Todd will discuss how investing in research has made possible two outstanding series with two individually unique characters. Both Ian Rutledge, a Scotland Yard Inspector who has returned from fighting and suffers from shellshock, and Bess Crawford, a young nurse serving in The Great War, offer readers a chance to revisit a pivotal event of the Twentieth Century. Sometimes it is fiction that makes a period more accessible to the casual reader and yet offers a student of the era a new perspective. The New York Times Book Review wrote, “the tragic sweep of Charles Todd’s historical mysteries grows more expansive with each successive novel in his stunning series.” Through complex characterization and writing that is “…graceful and evocative of bygone times and places,” (Miami Herald) Todd skillfully examines the human psyche and “raises disturbing issues of war and peace that still confront us today” (Orlando Sentinel). Reviews for their most recent novel, A BITTER TRUTH, are just as stellar: ASSOCIATED PRESS: “A Bitter…

Chicago Star/Bonner Brothers series – book #1 March 2002 On Sale: March 5, 2002 Featuring: Dan Celebow; Phoebe Somerville 384 pages ISBN: 0380776839 EAN: 9780380776832 Paperback (reprint) $7.99  Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Everyone reads about the Chicago Stars at the start of football season, so, here’s number 1 It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips The Chicago Stars are about to take the field…and they’re not the only ones playing for keeps. The Windy City isn’t quite ready for Phoebe Somerville—the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not ready for the Stars’ head coach, former gridiron legend Dan Calebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy new boss is everything Dan despises—a meddling bimbo who doesn’t know a pigskin from a pitcher’s mound. So why is Dan drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does the coach’s good ol’ boy charm leave cosmopolitan Phoebe feeling awkward, tongue-tied…and ready to fight? The sexy, heartwarming, and hilarious “prequel” to This Heart of Mine—Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s New York Times bestselling blockbuster—It…

Cleo Coyle Murder By Mocha Buy at Coffee House Mystery #10 Berkley August 2011 On Sale: August 2, 2011 Featuring: Clare Cosi 384 pages ISBN: 0425241432 EAN: 9780425241431 Hardcover Add to Wish List Read An Excerpt Dying for Chocolate For over twenty years, my husband and I have been living and working in New York City. Our bestselling Coffeehouse Mysteries—a unique blend of crime, romance, humor, and action—are set here, too, around a landmark Greenwich Village coffee shop called the Village Blend. The newest title, MURDER BY MOCHA, was actually inspired by a true crime (a true culinary crime). At the start of the story, coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi is providing freshly roasted beans for a lucrative new product: Mocha Magic Coffee. Laced with herbal aphrodisiacs, this coffee is supposed to put the “magic moments” back into your love life. “Supposed to” is the operative phrase. Clare is skeptical about the drink’s potency—although she does plan to test it on her boyfriend, NYPD Detective Mike Quinn (when he’s off duty, of course). Before she gets that chance, a corpse shows up in the hotel room of the product’s creator, and then disappears without a trace of evidence that a crime…

Angels and similar creatures are my favorite paranormal characters. I’ve been fascinated with the idea of wings on the back of someone who otherwise appears human since I was a little girl. I remember being enthralled in school by Egyptian art that showed a woman with wings longer than her arms. On the Cartoon Network, I watched shows such as Bird Man (self explanatory) and The Centurions (one character could fly with mechanical wings). I often had, and still have, flying dreams. As a fledgling writer, I dabbled in vampires before I settled into angels. Vampires and romance is a fantastic combination, and I doubt I’ll ever grow tired of reading such stories. In college, I took Vampires in Literature, an English elective, and have been hooked since. The vampire myth has had sexual elements since the earliest tales, and the leap of vampires to romance heroes and heroines feels natural to me. Angels, on the other hand, are not inherently romance characters. Many consider them religious characters, and while that certainly can be true, popular culture and many romance authors have taken them far outside that box. For me, the inherent conflict between what an angel is supposed to…