November 2011 On Sale: October 18, 2011 Featuring: Grace Lindstrom; Noah McKay 384 pages ISBN: 037377608X EAN: 9780373776085 Kindle: B005JSRAYC Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Buy at Amazon.com RT Nominated we like… A Home By The Sea by Christina Skye Grace Lindstrom has followed her fiancé across three continents, starry-eyed and full of dreams. But when he dies in a plane crash, Grace discovers that their life together was the cruelest kind of lie—and swears to never lose herself to that kind of love again. Until one night, when a chance encounter leads her to the kind of man she’s always dreamed of—and the deep family ties she’s never known. Noah McKay knows he can’t offer Grace any kind of future—not when he spends every day putting his life on the line. But when Grace’s grandfather suddenly falls ill and she’s called home to the small island town where she grew up, he realizes he can’t live without her. Aided by good knitting, good chocolate and deep friendship, Grace is slowly learning to trust again—but can she learn to love a man whose secrets run so deep? Excerpt Noah McLeod took a deep breath. Wind gusted up the…

Lots of people have asked me about the title of my latest romance. THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES is out in Presents Extra this week – on April 4th actually. And the title seems to have grabbed at people’s imaginations. THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES? What’s that about? It’s an unusual title – how did you come by that? they want to know. They’re intrigued and wanting to find out what the story is behind that atmospheric title. I have to admit that I’m really glad that Harlequin Mills & Boon have made a pretty radical rethink on their approach to titles a while back. They decided that those multiple, built up ‘buzzword’ titles no longer worked (thank goodness!) and the billionaire/blackmails/revenge/greek/whatever titles had to go. (You could hear the cheers from the authors for miles!) If they’d kept to that system of naming a book then I would probably have ended up with The Argentinian Billionaire’s One-Night Lovechild or some such and we all know there’s so much more to a book than just that! THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES was my own working title for this story, the one that gave me the right mood and atmosphere for…

Hi all ya’ll! Happy Easter everyone! Spring! Romance! Weddings! Doesn’t that all come to mind about now? Romance and weddings just naturally go together…add a touch of spring fever and boom, wedding bells are ringing and happy ever after is what it’s all about. Right? Not always. ONE HOT COWBOY WEDDING turns things around and upside down. It starts out with a wedding right at the start of the book and there’s doubts that HEA will ever even happen. Shhhh! It’s a secret! That line had run around in Jasmine’s mind all day on a continuous loop. She imagined two little girls playing out on the grassy lawn with their Barbie dolls and it was a secret where Barbie and Ken were going for supper. Then two middle school girls in her bedroom gossiping about boys, and it was a secret. Oh, the secrets she and Pearl had shared through the years, and now she had one that she couldn’t share with anyone, not even Pearl. “No one in Texas is ever going to know. Not even Pearl. I’ll go home and everything will be the same. I’ll wake up Monday morning, open the Chicken Fried Café, and business will…

I blame the Van Wickle Gates. See, my college has these giant iron gates that are only open for matriculation and commencement, per wacky ceremonial tradition, and also per wacky tradition, there’s some kind of urban (is it really urban on a college campus? Whatever) legend that, should you pass through them at any other time, lo, you will be CURSED and condemned to STAY AT COLLEGE FOREVER, or not graduate, or something. Said curse couldn’t really apply to me, because the time I walked through them the wrong way was after I’d been graduated, for which I blame my friends Jamey and Mike: we were coming back from the ceremony, discussing who’d won various bets regarding the valedictorian speeches ($5 each on “community,” “diversity,” a gratuitous mention of 9/11, and “Jesus Christ, my personal savior”, and I still think I could’ve swept the pool if we’d bothered to write this stuff down) and…we went the wrong way. As you do. Since I already graduated, clearly, the curse instead decreed that I’d never get away from academia in general, and…I really haven’t. Definitely not in my writing: my first book, NO PROPER LADY, is one of the few things I’ve…

I attended my first reader event in March. The Tucson Book Festival in Arizona. It was so great seeing the hundreds and hundreds of people roaming around talking about the thing they love: Reading. And since I love to write, it was a good fit. We got to chat it up about demons, angels & Guardians, give away fun prizes, and I got to answer questions from readers. One question that frequently came up was, “How do you come up with your stories?” I get asked that a lot, especially when people find out I’ve written twenty-five novels. For me, ideas can spring up anywhere. At any time. I just need to be ready for them, because an ordinary situation such as strolling down the grocery aisle can turn into a scene of a book in a matter of minutes. You never know when you’ll meet interesting people that’ll trigger some unique ideas for a novel! That’s what makes this whole writing thing so exciting. Next up, Romantic Times reader convention in Chicago! I hope to see you there! Coming in May AWAITED (Wasteland, #2) The voice is a powerful thing. . . Russell Leonard is a centuries-old Guardian who’s…

January 2012 On Sale: January 3, 2012 Featuring: Madeline Durand; Lucas Chaffee 400 pages ISBN: 0451235436 EAN: 9780451235435 Kindle: B005GSYYUS Paperback $7.99 Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com On Lavendar Lane by JoAnn Ross Former Navy SEAL Lucas Chaffee is settling back into civilian life, refurbishing a farmhouse for an old friend who plans to turn it into a culinary school. Celebrity TV chef Madeline Durand has been publicly humiliated by a philandering husband. So Madeline jumps at the chance to return to Shelter Bay to recover and help her grandmother turn the family farm into a new business. Little does she know that the man who broke her heart years ago is already on the job-or that he’s going to cook up a recipe of passion, patience, and perseverance to win her over. Lucas Chaffee returns to Shelter Bay to rekindle an old love. Previous Picks

Somebody asked me the other day in an interview why so many of my characters have suffered something horrible. Wow. Gut check! I looked through my backlist of forty books and realized I do write a great deal about people who have been through rough times. The loss of a spouse, infertility, the loss of a child, a terrible accident. Hmmm. Definitely a pattern there! As I dug a little deeper, it wasn’t so surprising. I find it inspiring to write about people who have faced difficult things and yet have still managed to overcome, to move forward with their lives and still find joy again. I suppose I am heartened by the many examples in my own life of friends and family who manage to face hard times with grace and dignity and come through to the other side with a beautiful strength. One of my favorite songs is sung by Martina McBride. The chorus has a great message that rings more true every time I hear it: “Love’s the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.” Like my characters, nobody gets through this world without suffering pain of some kind. But I find great…

Raise your hand if you’re in the midst of prom season! I have two daughters who started going to prom when they were freshmen in high school. Yup, I had 8 years of gowns and make up and hair. When the youngest girl went off the college, I breathed a huge sigh of relief as spring came around and I had no daughter at home to spend my money. Who wants to do all that shopping? Who can listen to the giddy laughter of teenage girls or hear the breathless sigh of delight when the boy finally asks her to the prom? One year, a boy actually serenaded my daughter. He wrote a song asking her to the prom. Oh wow, I miss it. I miss my girls, I miss the pictures and the tuxes, I miss the excitement and specialness of it all. And frankly, that’s a bit of a surprise because I was never a very girly girl. And yes, I went to my prom, but back then it was not nearly as elaborate as it is today. I think it was in a fit of longing for my daughters that I created a series set in a…

Virgin River #18\n \n March 2012\n On Sale: February 28, 2012\n Featuring: Katie Malone; Dylan Childress\n 384 pages \nISBN: 0778313107\nEAN: 9780778313106\nKindle: B006QADOQA\nPaperback\n$7.99\n  Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Turning the focus on small towns…some of our favorites Redwood Bend by Robyn Carr CAN CHANGING A TIRE CHANGE YOUR LIFE? Katie Malone and her twin boys’ trip along the beautiful mountain roads to Virgin River is stopped short by a tire as flat as her failed romance. To make matters worse, the rain has set in, the boys are hungry and Katie is having trouble putting on a spare. As she stands at the side of the road pondering her next move, she hears a distinct rumble. The sight of the sexy, leather-clad bikers who pull up beside her puts her imagination into overdrive. Dylan Childress and his buddies are on the motorcycle trip of a lifetime. But the sight of a woman in distress stops them in their tracks. And while the guys are checking out her car, she and Dylan are checking out one another. In one brief moment, the world tilts on its axis and any previous plans Katie and Dylan might have had for…

Song of Fire and Ice #1 April 2011 On Sale: March 22, 2011 704 pages ISBN: 0553386794 EAN: 9780553386790 Paperback (reprint) $17.00  Add to Wish List Series, Fantasy Buy at Amazon.com It’s back, season two… Game Of Thrones by George R.R. Martin The first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels. Now an HBO original series Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and…