Three Kisses Trilogy #2 January 2011 On Sale: January 4, 2011 Featuring: Stevie Baci; Jacques Parini 304 pages ISBN: 0425239179 EAN: 9780425239179 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Then He Kissed Me by Christie Ridgway What could Tanti Baci’s tomboy have in common with a royal prince? Oh, that… The three Baci sisters are on a mission to save the family winery by transforming it into a wedding destination. When Stevie Baci playfully names her own side business Napa Princess Limousine, she never dreams she’ll be driving a real prince around Napa Valley. Jacques Parini, aka “Jack”, is looking to expand his family’s wine interests. But after kissing Stevie, he finds this California girl in a black chauffeur’s hat does more than drive him crazy. A fun addition to the romantic Three Kisses trilogy. Excerpt “So who’s the other guy?” Stevie’s friend Mari asked, as she slid into the passenger seat of the waiting limousine. “Uh . . . other guy?” “Tall, dark, and dashing?” her friend qualified. “Don’t tell me you didn’t notice.” She’d noticed. From the moment he’d stepped out of the resort. But tall, dark, and dashing didn’t make up for rich,…

December 2010 On Sale: December 1, 2010 Featuring: Abby Donovan; Mark Baynard 224 pages ISBN: 1439188157 EAN: 9781439188156 Trade Size $15.00 Add to Wish List Women’s Fiction Contemporary, Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros absolutely dazzles in this quick-witted, laugh-out-loud funny, and highly moving love story that will set readers’ hearts atwitter. Abigail Donovan has a lot of stuff she should be doing. Namely writing her next novel. A bestselling author who is still recovering from a near Pulitzer Prize win and the heady success that follows Oprah’s stamp of approval, she is stuck at Chapter Five and losing confidence daily. But when her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account, she’s intrigued. What’s all the fuss? Taken under the wing of one of her Twitter followers, “MarkBaynard”—a quick witted, quick-typing professor on sabbatical—Abby finds it easy to put words out into the world 140 characters at a time. And once she gets a handle on tweets, retweets, direct messages, hashtags, and trends, she starts to feel unblocked in writing and in life. After all, why should she be spending hours in her apartment staring at her TweetDeck…

Ex Trophy Wives #1 December 2010 On Sale: December 7, 2010 Featuring: Campbell Barker; Maxine Cambridge 368 pages ISBN: 0425236994 EAN: 9780425236994 Trade Size $15.00 Add to Wish List Romance, Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Get in the mood for a romantic comedy You Dropped a Blonde on Me by Dakota Cassidy She was the perfect party-planning, haute-to-the max trophy wife. Now Maxine Cambridge is broke, unemployable and living with her mother and teenage son in a retirement village, with her self-esteem kicked to the curb. Until her geeky former classmate Campbell Barker returns, all grown-up- and off-the-scale smokin’ hot. Campbell refuses to believe Max isn’t that smart, funny girl he’s crushed on since high school. The more Max tries to show him he’s wrong, the more she rediscovers her long-retired mojo. Now, she’s ready to throw down some payback on her ex-life and fight for what she deserves. ‘Suck it up Princess’ should be every woman’s mantra Previous Picks

January 2011 On Sale: January 3, 2011 Featuring: Lizzie Bea Carpenter; Dante Giovanni 406 pages ISBN: 0446561991 EAN: 9780446561990 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Buy at Amazon.com How Sweet It Is by Sophie Gunn Dreams can come true… Life in the small town of Galton, New York sure is sweet. At least it was until single mom and diner waitress Lizzie Bea Carpenter gets a letter from her first-ever love. He’s coming back to town Christmas day to meet Lizzie’s daughter, the child he abandoned way back when. Lizzie needs now more than ever to protect her daughter, and herself, from men who show up out of the blue, promising to grant a girl’s every desire. So when a sexy, mysterious stranger appears because he overheard her wish for a free handyman, she wants him gone. Now. At least, the smart part of her does. The other part starts to wonder if he’s the only man who can help her face her past, and get back to sampling the sweetest things in life. ExcerptCHAPTER ONE For over a week the envelope sat on the dining room table unnoticed, buried under a stack of bird-seed catalogues and household bills…

November 2010 On Sale: November 2, 2010 352 pages ISBN: 0451231449 EAN: 9780451231444 Trade Size $15.00 Add to Wish List Fiction Buy at Amazon.com A Fresh Fiction 2010 Favorite Read. “as refreshing as a cool breeze on a hot Georgia afternoon.” Falling Home by Karen White You know that saying about how sometimes you’re the windshield and sometimes you’re the bug? It’s true. Take me, for example. I shook the Georgia dust from my feet fifteen years ago, vowing never to leave Manhattan. I traded sweet tea for Chardonnay, fried chicken for nouvelle cuisine, lazy days on my aunt’s front porch for ad campaigns and board meetings, and the guy who broke my heart for my handsome boss, who soon became my fiance. Perfect, right? Until my sister called. We haven’t spoken since I left home–because she married the guy who broke my heart. What’s more, she called to say my father is dying–but he refuses to finish until I show up. So I’m back in the hottest, dinkiest small town in Georgia, facing my sister and my old boyfriend over the heads of their–count them– five children. It couldn’t get weirder, right? Unless you count Sam Parker–a long-forgotten classmate,…

Vampire Queen #5 May 2010 On Sale: May 4, 2010 Featuring: Anwyn Naime; Gideon Green 400 pages ISBN: 0425234185 EAN: 9780425234181 Trade Size $15.00 Add to Wish List Erotica Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com A 2010 Fresh Fiction Favorite Read. Vampire Mistress by Joey W. Hill Sometimes desire can work three ways… The fifth book in the sensational series of \”sizzling paranormal erotica.\” (Fresh Fiction) Joey W. Hill returns to the dark and seductive landscape of her Vampire Queen novels as a desperate woman named Anwyn finds herself trapped between the desires of two men, each with his own mission of the night: vampire hunter Gideon Green and vampire Daegan Rei. But when Anwyn is attacked by a rogue bloodsucker, Gideon and Daegan must become allies in order to save the woman they both love. Will the Vampire Hunter ever be able to find peace and accept his future? Excerpt Anwyn stood in the security room, her eyes trained on the surveillance screen for the Queen’s Chamber. With the high canopy bed, lush draperies, and polished restraint systems, it was one of her favorite rooms. The stainless steel and gleaming wood instruments of pleasure and torture had been rendered by quality…

Maiden Lane #1 August 2010 On Sale: August 1, 2010 Featuring: Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire; Temperance Dews 400 pages ISBN: 044655894X EAN: 9780446558945 Mass Market Paperback $6.99 Add to Wish List Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com A 2010 Fresh Fiction Favorite Read. “Not to be missed” Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . . Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London’s most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand-she’s spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk . . . A WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST . . . Caire makes a simple offer-in return for Temperance’s help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London’s high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control-one that may well destroy them both. A BARGAIN NEITHER COULD REFUSE An arousing and…

Honky Tonk #2 August 2010 On Sale: August 3, 2010 Featuring: Travis Henry; Cathy O’Dell 384 pages ISBN: 1402239270 EAN: 9781402239274 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com A Fresh Fiction 2010 Favorite Read. Hell, Yeah by Carolyn Brown Are sparks gonna fly when he shows up? He lives the good life… Gorgeous and rich, Travis Henry travels the country unearthing oil wells and then moving on. Then the beautiful blue-eyed new owner of the Honky Tonk beer joint becomes his best friend and so much more. She’s finally found a place that feels like home… When Cathy O’Dell buys the Honky Tonk, the nights of cowboys and country tunes come together to create the home she’s always wanted. Then in walks a ruggedly handsome oil man who tempts her to trade in the happiness she’s found at the Honky Tonk for a life on the road with him… Will a sexy showdown persuade two stubborn lovers to reveal their true hearts’ desires, or will they both be left singing the blues? Can’t help falling in love with you. Excerpt “Ten, hell yeah!” The women yelled with Gretchen Wilson as she sang “Redneck Woman”…

April 2010 On Sale: April 6, 2010 Featuring: Angelina Moyano; Micah Hudson 368 pages ISBN: 0425232581 EAN: 9780425232583 Trade Size $15.00 Add to Wish List Erotica, Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com A 2010 Fresh Fiction Favorite Read. “Powerful, emotional and steamy hot.” Sweet Temptation by Maya Banks She has a hard act to follow… He was a by-the-book cop who broke the rules in the bedroom… Micah Hudson has painful secrets he’s run hard from. He has new friends, a new life, but he’s about to be confronted with the one person who reminds him of all he’s tried to forget–Angelina, the sister of his oldest friend David. She knows everything about his past, including how he and David fell in love with the same woman, and how they decided the best way to prevent her from tearing them apart was to share her between them. But then a terrible accident left Micah alone… She was willing to do anything to make him see the woman she’d become… Micah lost the two people who meant the most in the world to him. Angelina lost her only family. And she kept her deepest secret close to her heart. Her love…

Mercy Thompson #5 April 2010 On Sale: March 30, 2010 Featuring: Samuel; Mercy Thompson 352 pages ISBN: 044101819X EAN: 9780441018192 Hardcover $24.95 Add to Wish List Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com A 2010 Fresh Fiction Favorite Read! Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs All-new action in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series Being a mechanic is hard work. Mercy Thompson, for instance, just spent the last couple of months trying to evade the murderous queen of the local vampire seethe, and now the leader of the werewolf pack – who’s maybe-more-than-just-a-friend – has asked for her help. A book of fae secrets has come to light and they’re all about to find out how implacable – and dangerous – the fae can be. OK, so maybe her troubles have nothing to do with the job. But she sure could use a holiday … Excerpt Chapter One The starter complained as it turned over the old Buick’s heavy engine. I felt a lot of sympathy for it since fighting outside my weight class was something I was intimately familiar with. I’m a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires — outmatched is an understatement. “One more…