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Barnes & Noble in Firewheel Town Center To Host Release of New Mystery
News / January 12, 2012

Set in Austin, Hill Country, UNDERCURRENTS is the second volume in the popular Detective Craig Rylander Clover-Mystery series. Barnes & Noble in Firewheel Town Center will host the first North Texas release party with the authors, George Arnold and Ken Squier, Friday, January 13 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. according to Katy Hastings, the store’s community relations manager. UNDERCURRENTS: The Van Pelt Enigma, set in Austin and the Texas Hill country, chronicles the further adventures of the Austin Police detective sergeant beset with doubts about his own job performance and who is suddenly thrust into the crosshairs of an international assassination ring run by descendants of the Romanoffs, the last Czars of Russia. Believing his team is investigating a local arson murder and a likely-related car bombing, Rylander reluctantly accepts help from the Texas Rangers, FBI, Interpol and the CIA, all of whom believe the local cases are traceable to a psychopath, Felix Pavlovich, head of the assassination ring and pretender to the throne as Czar of a new Russia. Gholson likens the book and series to the work of P.D. James, Michael Connelly and James Lee Burke. “The authors, George Arnold of Fredericksburg and Ken Squier of San Antonio,…

THE BUNGALOW is a Pulpwood Queen 2012 Book Club Selection. See Sarah Jio at Pulpwood Queen’s Girlfriend Weekend in Jefferson, TX
News / January 12, 2012

“The Bungalow is a story as luscious as its exotic setting. Ms. Jio has crafted a wartime story of passion and friendship, loss and mystery. – Karen White, author of The Beach Trees “[U]nabashedly romantic . . . thanks to Jio’s (The Violets of March) deft handling of her plot and characters. Fans of Nicholas Sparks will enjoy this gentle historical love story.” -Library Journal “Engrossing…this mystery-slash-love story will have you racing to the end.” – Redbook “Mystery meets romance in this absorbing debut novel by Sarah Jio” – Woman’s Day In the most transporting fiction, setting speaks with a voice all its own, beguiling readers onto unforgettable journeys. In her acclaimed debut novel, THE VIOLETS OF MARCH, Sarah Jio chose Bainbridge Island, surrounded by the moody waters of the Puget Sound Basin, to cue her “engrossing” (Redbook) story of people whose closely held secrets collide with their search for second chances. In her highly anticipated follow-up, THE BUNGALOW (A Plume Original/January 2012), Jio imagines an island with an entirely different tale to tell. Bora-Bora’s South Pacific shores have served as muse to Paul Gauguin and inspired a host of passions. As the Second World War escalates, Anne Calloway forgoes…

Mia Marlowe | A Man in a Kilt…
Author Guest / January 12, 2012

What’s so special about a guy in a kilt? Getting him out of it, of course. In SINS OF THE HIGHLANDER, “Mad Rob” MacLaren peels off his own plaid to take a bath after a sleepless night. The poor guy has had to flee from his pursuers, sleep in a cave without a fire, and fight off a wolf-pack. Of course, he brought all this trouble on himself when he abducted his enemy’s bride from the altar. To make matters worse, he’s having difficulty thinking of Elspeth Stewart as simply a means to a vengeful end. Exclusive Excerpt from SINS OF THE HIGHLANDER: Rob stripped off his filthy clothes on the loch’s shore and left them in a pile as he walked to the water’s edge. He squatted down and splashed himself all over, sucking a breath over his teeth at the cold. Normally, he’d have skipped a bath in this weather, but Elspeth Stewart was getting clean somewhere inside Angus Fletcher’s cluttered wattle-and-daub home. He didn’t want to smell like a boar pit beside her. Rob scooped out a dollop of soap from the stone jar Angus had loaned him and smeared his whole body with it. He even…

Fresh Pick | WHISPERS IN THE DARK by Maya Banks
Fresh Pick / January 12, 2012

KGI #4  January 2012 On Sale: January 3, 2012 Featuring: Shea; Nathan Kelly 352 pages ISBN: 0425246108 EAN: 9780425246108 Kindle: B005ERITRU Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Picked as a Book Club favorite, like candy, you can’t read just one! Whispers In The Dark by Maya Banks She came to him when he needed her the most. She came to him at his lowest point. The voice of an angel, a whisper in the dark. She’s the only thing that gets Nathan Kelly through his captivity, the endless days of torture and the fear that he’ll never return to his family. With her help, he’s able to escape. But he isn’t truly free, because now she’s disappeared and he’s left with an all-consuming emptiness as he struggles to pick up the pieces of his life. Did he imagine his angel? Or is she out there, needing his help as he’d once needed hers? Now he rushes to save her before it’s too late. Shea has been on the run from people who will stop at nothing to exploit her unique abilities. She never wanted to drag Nathan, who’d already suffered so much, into danger, but…