Inspector Jack Oxby December 2012 On Sale: November 27, 2012 Featuring: Jack Oxby 320 pages ISBN: 155704967X EAN: 9781557049674 Kindle: B007PJZCPC Paperback / e-Book (reprint) $14.99 Add to Wish List  Mystery Buy at Amazon.com Time for a mystery The Cezanne Chase by Thomas Swan New Scotland Yard’s art crime detective tackles the mystery behind the destruction of valuable Cézanne paintings, crisscrossing from St. Petersburg, New York City, London, Provence, Boston, and Paris. When Inspector Jack Oxby links the shocking defacing of two of the 26 extant Cézanne self-portraits in London’s National Gallery to a mysterious death outside London, the chase is on. The high-risk world of international art is exposed, as is the ruthless adversary behind the intricate and deadly crime. A highly suspenseful and fast moving mystery filled with international intrigue and high stakes art! Previous Picks

I envy people that can plot every chapter of their book before they start, seriously I do. My best writing buddy does this and I have to say I’m in awe of her skills. I’ve tried to do the character wheel, goal motivation and conflict to help me out but it doesn’t work for me. I tend to go for walks in the early morning with a germ of an idea rolling around in my brain. If I’m lucky it will simmer away nicely until there is something to work with. It might be one sentence or a name. I wrote my first rural romance from seeing a sign on a fence naming the station if surrounded. That is when I sit down and my fingers start racing over the keys. If I’m lucky it will flow nicely. Some days I have to literally pull the words out as I go, some days the words pour out. With RED HOT, it was the location that first struck me. I had a trip to San Francisco and fell in love with the coast road. It took my breath away. I knew I had to write a story set in that area….

Red Stone Security #1 Kindle: B007ED610Y e-Book Amazon Barnes and Noble Kobo Books iTunes Bookstore No One to Trust – ON SALE for $0.99 cents one week only! Praise for the novels of Katie Reus: “Explosive danger and enough sexual tension to set the pages on fire!” — New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Ivy “Sexy suspense at its finest.” – Laura Wright, USA Today bestselling author “Lusty, heartfelt and shows that love can conquer all.” — RT Book Reviews (4 stars) “A well-plotted, excellently delivered emotional and sensual ride that grabs hold and doesn’t let go!…Ms. Reus delivers mystery, suspense and a romance nothing short of heart pounding!” —Night Owl Reviews No One to Trust, Book 1 – Red Stone Security Series Computer security specialist Elizabeth Martinez has never been able to turn her back on her brother Benny. When his risky lifestyle finally lands him in harm’s way, Elizabeth finds herself dragged into the dangerous underworld with him and into the cross hairs of one of Miami’s death-dealing drug lords. Only after her ex-boyfriend saves her does she realize she might have no choice but to depend on the one man she has tried so desperately to forget….

How have our romances changed in the last ten years? Because tastes rarely stay exactly the same in our reading, television, music and art, and romance fiction is really no different. The basics are still there but what changes? I wrote about the war affecting our characters in this week’s Kirkus Reviews. Check it out! I love to talk about it. I had an interesting and very thought-provoking book club this week–after the tragic sniper shooting in Texas of best-selling writer Chris Kyle, the conversation turned to the heroines in our books. The realization as a nation that we’ve spent over 10 years at war is unsettling. Most of us know at least one family who has been directly affected by one of the wars, and it became apparent that even our reading has changed. Perhaps subtly, but if you look back 10 years you can see patterns. First, our heroines’ occupations are no longer the secretary or assistant, but they are the doctor, the pilot, the police officer or in the case of most urban fantasy or paranormal romances, the woman is the primary protagonist and kicks ass. Our heroes aren’t just covert organization mystery men, but Special Forces…

Two bestselling paranormal romance authors team up with two hot new, soon-to-be stars in this vampire-filled anthology. Kerrelyn Sparks, Pamela Palmer,  Amanda Arista, and Kim Falconer are all teaming up to give readers what they want—Vampires Gone Wild! V is for VampWoman by Kerrelyn Sparks Pamela decides to shed her prim and proper ways for spandex and a mask to help fight the Malcontents. Now if only she wasn’t so distracted by the sexy vampire fighting by her side… A Forever Love by Pamela Palmer Trapped in Vamp City, Lukas has been unable to return to the beauty who stole his heart. But now that she stumbled into his world, it will take every ounce of cunning he possesses to keep her alive. First Dates are Hell by Amanda Arista Valiance’s first date in a hundred years is going great…until they’re attacked in the parking lot and quiet, unassuming Esme turns out to be way more than she appears. Blood and Water by Kim Falconer Beneath the waves of San Francisco Bay lives a vampire race who wants nothing to do with the “landers” except to feed on them. But when Stellan sets eyes on Angeline, everything changes. *** About…

A captivating tale of love between the unlikeliest of people in the unlikeliest of places Cranham & Keith November 2012 On Sale: October 24, 2012 Featuring: Charlie Matthews; Noor Khan 464 pages ISBN: 061569540X EAN: 9780615695402 Kindle: B009LU196Y Paperback / e-Book Amazon Barnes and Noble iTunes Kobo  * * *   Visit N.G. Osborne In 1991, on a dusty, sweltering night, Noor Khan, a beautiful, headstrong Afghan refugee, comes face-to-face with Charlie Matthews, a brash, young American aid worker. To Noor’s fury, Charlie breaks every cultural norm and pursues her. She wants nothing to do with him: her sole aim in life is to earn an overseas scholarship so she can escape the miseries of the refugee camps. However when Noor’s brother threatens to marry her off, she is forced to seek refuge in Charlie’s home, of all places, and suddenly everything Noor believes in is put into question. Set in the mystical and seething city of Peshawar, where no one is without an agenda and few can be trusted, Refuge is a timeless and unforgettable love story about the struggle for love and purpose in a cruel and cynical world. “A brilliantly compelling romantic drama set in a world…

Celebrate Valentine’s Day No Matter What! I’m so honored to be asked to write Fresh Fiction’s Valentine’s Day Blog every year and because I really enjoy it. Shockingly, I’ve been at it since 2008! How lucky am I? Over the years, I’ve talked about Romance, True Love, Valentine’s Day itself,   Commercialization of the holiday. And last year, chocolate. So what’s left? Unconditional Love. Who gives it?  Who gets it? Do you need to earn it? Interesting, huh? So here goes – I’ve had a very rough, sad year.  I lost my father in October 2012 and I’ve been one of those very lucky people who had a father who loved me unconditionally.  The loss is huge and gaping, and frankly I don’t want to celebrate any holidays this year.  I just want to get through it.  But in writing this column, I realize how fortunate I was.  Am.  I had unconditional love in my life from both my parents, and my mom is still here.  🙂 I have a husband I love and two girls I adore. But I admit it.  My husband isn’t a romantic.  I can live with that because he gives in so many other ways! …

A Novel of the Valentine Killer February 2013 On Sale: February 12, 2013 Featuring: Katherine Cole; Dane Black 358 pages ISBN: 1611099145 EAN: 9781611099140 Kindle: B009NZUN46 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List  Romance Suspense, Suspense Buy at Amazon.com The Perfect Love??? Die For Me by Cynthia Eden She thought her fiance was the perfect man—until he turned out to be the perfect killer… Katherine Cole is running for her life, desperate to escape the Valentine Killer—so-called because he stabs his victims through the heart and leaves them holding a telltale single red rose. Still he tracks her to New Orleans and begins carving a bloody path to her door. But this time, Katherine refuses to run any farther. This time, she’ll do anything to stop the madman she once loved, even trust the sexy cop promising to keep her safe… Detective Dane Black never lets his emotions interfere with his job, even as the Valentine Killer surfaces in New Orleans to stalk his prey. But when Dane agrees to protect the killer’s ex-fiancee, Katherine Cole, he can’t ignore the passion kindling between them. After a single unforgettable night binds them body and soul, Dane knows he won’t rest until…

  Red Moon #1 Silver Hawk Press February 2013 On Sale: January 23, 2013 332 pages ISBN: 098860793X EAN: 9780988607934 Kindle: B00B4IZATS Paperback / e-Book Amazon Barnes and Noble     Visit Micah Caida Is Déjà vu real or not? Have you ever experienced déjà vu?  It’s a French expression that translates as “already seen.” If you’re not familiar with the term, it’s when you suddenly have that sense that,  “holy smokes, this has happened before, exactly like this.”When it happens, it always throws me off kilter. I have this recurring vision where I’m standing on the street corner in Chicago back in the 1930s. In this vision, I’m about 22 or 23, and I can see my short hair and the clothes and hat I’m wearing.I have the feeling I was on the way to work in a light brown gabardine dress, the shirt type that buttoned up the front and had a belt. My hat was a similar color and I wore it canted just off center.This vision has come to me many times.  It’s always left me with the strong sense that I was close to the end of my life at that time.  Like maybe I…

Beloved, best selling author Jane Ashford is back with her first new Regency romance in over ten years!   Visit Jane Ashford   Who says second chances aren’t possible? Sourcebooks February 2013 On Sale: February 1, 2013 Featuring: Charlotte Rutherford Wylde; Sir Alec Wylde 416 pages ISBN: 1402276729 EAN: 9781402276729 Kindle: B009RXJ2ZA Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List Amazon Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Powell’s Books Sourcebooks Indigo / Chapters Local Independent Bookstore Widowhood will change Charlotte Wyld’s life forever.   When Charlotte Wylde loses a husband she never loved, she becomes entangled in a family she never knew he had.  Ashford’s intriguing new historical, Once Again a Bride, has been included on Publishers Weekly‘s Spring 2013 Top Ten List (romance category)! You can discover this enthralling book now—and then preorder reissues of Ashford’s beloved backlist titles—Man of Honour (available September 2013), The Three Graces (available October 2013) and The Marriage Wager (available November 2013). Don’t miss another chance to find out why Ashford’s stories leave Regency romance fans swooning! Praise for ONCE AGAIN A BRIDE “A near-perfect example of everything that makes this genre an escapist joy to read: unsought love triumphs despite difficult circumstances, unpleasantness is resolved and…