SOMEBODY TO LOVE from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Kristan Higgins Parker Welles is most definitely not looking for love. She’s got her hands full—a young son, a stalled career as a children’s book author, and, most recently, bankruptcy, courtesy of her insider-trading father. She needs to flip the one asset she has left: a tiny house on the northern coast of Maine. The last person she wants to help her is James Cahill, her father’s personal attorney and the son he never had. James has had it bad for Parker since the day he met her. With his boss in jail, he figures he’ll head to Maine and help her out, whether or not she wants him to. And maybe change her mind about him after all this time. “Higgins has another winner with this delightful romance.” —Romantic Times “(Higgins writes) complex characters and great endings…SOMEBODY TO LOVE is my favorite Higgins book so far.”—Fresh Fiction “Another honest story about family dynamics. Sensitivity, wit and compassion abound in this latest trip to a very small town and its rather eccentric population. —Night Owl Reviews, Top Pick In honor of the new release, Kristan is giving away…

Return to Hadley Green THE REVENGE OF LORD EBERLIN, book #2 in the Secrets of Hadley Green series, publishes on February 21, 2012! Readers have been anxiously awaiting for Lily and Tobin’s story since the stunning end of THE YEAR OF LIVING SCANDALOUSLY. Returning to Hadley Green after fifteen years, the young Lord Eberlin has but one goal in mind: to avenge the death of his father. But when he is reunited with the beautiful target of his smoldering wrath, his plans take an unexpected turn. . . . Tobin Scott has not been back to Hadley Green since Lily Boudine’s childhood testimony helped send his father to the gallows for stealing the valuable Ashwood jewels. Now a wealthy man, he intends to exact his revenge by destroying Ashwood and its lady. He offers Lily a choice between her life and the livelihoods of the people who depend on the estate. She chooses the former, certain she can hold his dangerous plans at bay. Lily and Tobin’s game of one-upmanship quickly becomes a delicate dance of seduction, and she realizes he is not the cold, heartless man he tries to seem. In fact, she is certain he is right—his father…

Visit Marie Force Twitter: Marie Force Facebook: Marie Force Marie Force Blogspot Featuring: Jack Harrington; Andrea Walsh 370 pages ISBN: 1466413654 EAN: 9781466413658 Kindle: B005YRL04Y e-Book Amazon  Barnes and Noble iPad/Apple Smashwords All Romance Ebooks Kobo Goodreads * * * Treading Water #2 Featuring: Clare Harrington, Kate Harrington and Aidan O’Malley 404 pages EAN: 9781466413658 Kindle: B006FI51A0 e-Book Amazon Barnes and Noble iPad/Apple Smashwords All Romance Ebooks GoodReads * * * Treading Water #3 Featuring: Brandon O’Malley 380 pages ISBN: 1467938378 EAN: 2940013865297 Kindle: B006NKOGLA e-Book Amazon Barnes and Noble iPad/Apple Smashwords All Romance Ebooks Goodreads A Dream Comes True I’m delighted to introduce you to the Harrington and O’Malley families, featured in my new Treading Water Trilogy! TREADING WATER, MARKING TIME and STARTING OVER were the first books I ever wrote back in 2005–2006, and it’s such a thrill (and a dream come true) to finally have them available to my lovely readers. The story begins with a mysterious accident that changes the lives of the Harrington family forever. Here’s a brief synopsis of book 1, TREADING WATER: Love is the last thing on Jack Harrington’s mind when he sets out to meet Andi Walsh’s flight. Recently back to…

The unexpected hero… I’d like to introduce you to SAC Taylor Jones… the top dog of a special task force in the FBI. His team consists of psychics and if you ask just about any of them? They’ll tell you the same thing I would have said a few years ago… he’s a cold piece of work. And he’s not a hero. Yep. That was my analysis. He’s the by-the-books type. Cold. As I said. Icy. Driven. Determined. I would (and have) even called him a jerk. So why did I write a book about him? Because I kept getting asked this troubling little question… Why is he like that? Taylor first appeared in THE MISSING. The heroine in that book, Taige Branch, worked for Taylor. He was her boss. And let me tell you, he didn’t impress me. A friend of mine asked me, When are you writing his book? That was barely a week after THE MISSING came out. I said, Um…never…! He’s a jerk! Actually, I used a stronger word. But you get the idea. She responded back with: I KNOW! I need to know what made him that way! I told her there wasn’t a story…

“You will LOVE the Pennyroyal Green series!”—#1 NYT Bestselling Author Julia Quinn HOW THE MARQUESS WAS WON is here! Since 2012 is just days away, I wanted to be among the first thousand or so people to wish you a Happy New Year, lovelies—and I hope you and yours are thoroughly enjoying (and safely surviving) the holiday season. Since I feel it’s my duty as an author to alert you to opportunities to warm up those e-readers Santa brought ;): HOW THE MARQUESS WAS WON is here—AND the e-book is priced at only $4.99 at all your favorite e-book retailers! Not only that, but I’m so thrilled to tell you that it’s arriving on a veritable wave of raves, including a Starred Review from the Library Journal AND (this floored me) Amazon.com selected it as one of the Best Books of the Month! I truly hope your new year launches with similarly lovely surprises! I can’t wait to hear what readers think—HOW THE MARQUESS WAS WON is the sixth book in my Pennyroyal Green series, the follow up to WHAT I DID FOR A DUKE (chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of 2011), and I’m still half…

Meet Gabe Sullivan – the third Sullivan bad boy to fall in love! I’m so excited to announce the release of CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE, the third book in my bestselling contemporary romance series about the Sullivan family! Gabe Sullivan risks his life every day as a firefighter in San Francisco. But after learning a brutal lesson about professional boundaries, he knows better than to risk his heart to his fire victims ever again. Especially the brave mother and daughter he saved from a deadly apartment fire…and can’t stop thinking about. Megan Harris knows she owes the heroic firefighter everything for running into a burning building to save her and her seven-year-old daughter. Everything except her heart. Because after losing her navy pilot husband five years ago, she has vowed to never suffer through loving – and losing – a man with a dangerous job again. Only, when Gabe and Megan meet again and uncontrollable flames of desire ignite between them, how can he possibly ignore her courage, determination, and beauty? And how can she deny not only his strong bond with her daughter…but the way his sweetly sensual kisses are challenging her to risk everything she’s been guarding…

Characters Are People Too! The hallmark of great books are characters. Not too-perfect heroes and heroines, or pure evil villains, but characters who feel so real we think we’d recognize them if we saw them on the street. Flawed characters with a past, who have doubts and dreams, hopes and fears, problems and solutions. Characters who are people just like us. A great hero is not one who is so perfect they have no fear, but a person who, in spite of fear, acts for the benefit of others. A scary villain isn’t someone who’s bad just because they can be, but a person with hopes and dreams and a reason for what they do. A truly “great” villain will be conflicted, and may at times show heroic qualities. But in the end, a villain will succumb to his weakness, while a true hero will overcome his failings. I first met Lucy while writing FEAR NO EVIL. She was an 18 year old high school graduate who, like many teen-agers, thought she was invincible. By the end of the book, I knew she needed her own series–one book wouldn’t do her justice. Now, Lucy is a 25-year-old FBI recruit waiting…

Advice…Take It?  Or Leave It? Have you ever ignored advice and later regretted that you did? What if it put you in the spotlight of men with machine guns? That’s exactly what happened to me once when I flippantly dismissed a crucial piece of advice received on an airplane. All I did was answer a question from a man in front of me about his customs form.  Later I walked to the back of the plane and a second passenger warned me that I shouldn’t speak to the first man.  He used a racial slur, so I dismissed that warning as bigotry and spoke briefly to the first man again.  When we disembarked later in Beijing, the airport was deserted except for visibly-armed Red Army guards.  I quickly found myself alone at the baggage carousel with the first man I’d spoken to earlier. Man: “How much for your services?” Me: “I’m sorry. What?” Man: “Your services.  For the night, your services.  HOW MUCH?” Even I got it then.  I, a lone woman with no male family member to oversee her care, had spoken to a very traditional-minded man from Saudi Arabia.  He assumed I was a prostitute. His agitation and…

Connect with Kat: Visit Kat Martin Become a Facebook Fan of Kat Martin Join Kat’s Mailing List Enter Contest Some women find trouble wherever they go. And some men are their only protection against it. THE STORY (read excerpt) Redheads like Maggie O’Connell are nothing but trouble. But Trace Rawlins, a former army-ranger-turned-private-investigator, takes the case anyway. After all, he knows how to deal with women. Trace can sense that something’s wrong—Maggie isn’t telling him everything. If these menacing calls and messages are real, why won’t the police help her? And if they aren’t real, what is she hiding? As Trace digs deeper to find the source of Maggie’s threats, he discovers a secret that no one was meant to uncover. And the only puzzle left to be solved is whether the danger comes from an unknown stalker…or from the woman he’s trying his hardest not to fall for. Tell us a little about AGAINST THE STORM what inspired you to write the book? Trace Rawlins is an ex-Army Ranger, a friend of Dev Raines who appeared in Against the Law. Trace knows redheads are nothing but trouble but when fiery, red-haired photographer Maggie O’Connell comes to him for help…

Welcome to The House of Comarré BLOOD RIGHTS 9/27 FLESH AND BLOOD November BAD BLOOD December BLOOD RIGHTS “Prophecy, curses, and devilish machination combine for a spellbinding debut of dark romance and pulse-pounding adventure.” – Library Journal, starred review “Passion and murder, vampires and courtesans – original and un-put-downable.” – Patricia Briggs Visit Kristen Painter Service Is Her Life Chrysabelle is a comarré, a unique human hybrid raised under a strict code and chosen to provide exceptionally pure and powerful blood to the vampire nobility, if they can afford the cost of a comarré’s blood rights. On the verge of earning her freedom, Chrysabelle’s vampire patron has just been found dead and all evidence points to her. Fearing for her life, she runs to New Florida, home of the only person she knows outside her sheltered world, the woman who raised her, the woman she calls aunt since no comarré know their true parents. Through one of her aunt’s connections, Chrysabelle is introduced to a reclusive vampire who might be able to help her. If she doesn’t kill him first. Death Is All He Knows Malkolm is anathema, an outcast vampire living under a curse that causes him to drink…