January 2008 On Sale: January 1, 2008 Featuring: Mojo 384 pages ISBN: 0373772009 EAN: 9780373772001 Paperback (reprint) $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance, Romance Series Buy at Amazon.com Deadly Gamble by Linda Lael Miller Mojo’s got an uncanny knack for winning at slots, but her home sweet home is Bad-Ass Bert’s Biker Saloon. She’d love to go undercover with an irresistibly hot cop, but he’s got baggage as big as his biceps. Mojo survived a mysterious childhood tragedy, but she’s never quite figured out who she really is or how to get on with her life. Now the wisecracking Mojo is seeing ghosts-the ectoplasmic kind- and turning up baffling clues to her real identity. And she’ll need all her savvy and strange new talent to keep someone from burying her-and the truth- for keeps. Excerpt Cave Creek, Arizona At first, the chill was a drowsy nibble at the distant and ragged edges of my awareness, raising goosebumps on the parts of my flesh bared to that spring night. The sensation was vaguely disturbing, but not troublesome enough to stir me from the fitful shallows of sleep. I remember rolling onto my side, pulling the comforter up to my right earlobe…
Dido Kent #1 February 2010 On Sale: February 2, 2010 Featuring: Dido Kent; Richard Montague; Catherine 304 pages ISBN: 0312562942 EAN: 9780312562946 Hardcover $23.99 Add to Wish List Jane Austen, Mystery Historical, Mystery Amateur Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Bellfield Hall by Anna Dean Or, The Observations Of Miss Dido Kent 1805. An engagement party is taking place for Mr Richard Montague, son of wealthy landowner Sir Edgar Montague, and his fiancee Catherine. During a dance with his beloved, a strange thing happens: a man appears at Richard’s shoulder and appears to communicate something to him without saying a word. Instantly breaking off the engagement, he rushes off to speak to his father, never to be seen again. Distraught with worry, Catherine sends for her spinster aunt, Miss Dido Kent, who has a penchant for solving mysteries. Catherine pleads with her to find her fiance and to discover the truth behind his disappearance. It’s going to take a lot of logical thinking to untangle the complex threads of this multi-layered mystery, and Miss Dido Kent is just the woman to do it. Excerpt Chapter One Bellfield Hall, Monday, 23rd September 1805 My dear Eliza, I must begin another letter to you,…
April 2010 On Sale: April 13, 2010 Featuring: Georgina Jackson 320 pages ISBN: 141658787X EAN: 9781416587873 Trade Size $15.00 Add to Wish List Women’s Fiction Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Writing Jane Austen by Elizabeth Aston Critically acclaimed and award-winning—but hardly bestselling—author Georgina Jackson can’t get past the first chapter of her second book. When she receives an urgent email from her agent, Georgina is certain it’s bad news. Shockingly, she’s offered a commission to complete a newly discovered manuscript by a major nineteenth-century author. Skeptical at first about her ability to complete the manuscript, Georgina is horrified to know that the author in question is Jane Austen. Torn between pushing through or fleeing home to America, Georgina relies on the support of her banker-turned-science student roommate, Henry, and his quirky teenage sister, Maud—a serious Janeite. With a sudden financial crisis looming, the only way Georgina can get by is to sign the hugely lucrative contract and finish the book. Excerpt Email from [email protected] To [email protected] Ring me. Henry stood at the door of Georgina’s room, holding a weighty textbook in one hand and marking his place with a finger. He looked at his lodger with concern. “Gina, why the screech…
July 2010 On Sale: July 20, 2010 Featuring: Mary Crawford; Fanny Price 352 pages ISBN: 0312638345 EAN: 9780312638344 Trade Size $14.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Historical, Jane Austen Buy at Amazon.com Murder At Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd Complete with romance, intrigue, and crimes of the heart, MURDER AT MANSFIELD PARK is an irreverent new twist on an old classic. Murder at Mansfield Park takes Jane Austen’s masterpiece and turns it into a riveting murder story worthy of PD James or Agatha Christie. Just as in many classic English detective mysteries, this new novel opens with a group of characters in a country house setting, with passions running high, and simmering tensions beneath the elegant Regency surface. The arrival of the handsome and debonair Henry Crawford and his sister forces these tensions into the open, and sparks a chain of events that leads inexorably to violence and death. Beautifully written, with an absolute faithfulness to the language in use at the time, Murder at Mansfield Park is both a good old-fashioned murder mystery that keeps the reader guessing until the very last page, and a sparklingly clever inversion of the original, which goes to the heart of many of…
<div style=”width:150px; float:left; margin-right:10px;”> <a href=”http://freshfiction.com/book.php?id=42076″><img src=”http://freshfiction.com/images/books/thumb/0061999067.jpeg” style=”float:Left; margin-right:10px;” alt=”Dancing With Mr. Darcy”></a> <br clear=”all”> <small> October 2010 On Sale: October 19, 2010 256 pages ISBN: 0061999067 EAN: 9780061999062 Trade Size $13.99 <h3><b><a href=”http://freshfiction.com/my_wish_list.php?id=42076″>Add to Wish List</a></b></h3> Jane Austen</small> <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061999067/freshfiction-20″>Buy at Amazon.com</a> <A href=”http://freshfiction.com/picks.php”><img src=”http://freshfiction.com/images/logos/freshpick150.gif” border=”0″ width=”150″ height=”83″ alt=”Fresh Book of the Day” style=”float:left; margin-right:10px;” /></A> </div><a href=”http://freshfiction.com/author.php?id=21962″><img src=”http://freshfiction.com/images/authors/thumb/21962.jpeg” style=”float:Right; margin-left:10px;” alt=”Sarah Waters” align=”right” /></a><a href=”http://freshfiction.com/book.php?id=42076″><b>Dancing With Mr. Darcy</b></a> by <a href=”http://freshfiction.com/author.php?id=21962″>Sarah Waters</a> <i>The Best of the Jane Austen Short Story Competition</i> Two hundred years ago, traumatized by her parents’ decision to give up the rectory in Hampshire where she grew up, Jane Austen found herself unable to write for a decade. During that time she moved from one rented property to another, and it was only when her brother Edward offered her a permanent home in his Chawton House Estate that she was able to pick up her pen again. In fact her time spent there was so productive that all of her novels were written or published while living there. The Jane Austen Short Story Competition celebrates the author, her works and the home that allowed her to write some of the most beloved and enduring novels…
August 2010 On Sale: August 3, 2010 Featuring: Mr. Knightley; Emma 304 pages ISBN: 1402241348 EAN: 9781402241345 Paperback $14.99 Add to Wish List Paranormal Romance, Jane Austen Buy at Amazon.com Emma and the Vampires by Wayne Josephson When all the men are undead, what’s a matchmaker to do? What better place than pale England to hide a secret society of gentlemen vampires? In this hilarious retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma, screenwriter Wayne Josephson casts Mr. Knightley as one of the most handsome and noble of the gentlemen village vampires. Blithely unaware of their presence, Emma, who imagines she has a special gift for matchmaking, attempts to arrange the affairs of her social circle with delightfully disastrous results. But when her dear friend Harriet Smith declares her love for Mr. Knightley, Emma realizes she’s the one who wants to stay up all night with him. Fortunately, Mr. Knightley has been hiding a secret deep within his unbeating heart-his (literal) undying love for her… A brilliant mash-up of Jane Austen and the undead. Every Well-Dressed Maiden Should Wear a Stake on Her Thigh Excerpt Chapter 1 Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, had lived nearly…
Sandman Slim #2 October 2010 On Sale: October 5, 2010 448 pages ISBN: 0061714313 EAN: 9780061714313 Hardcover $22.99 Add to Wish List Paranormal – Supernatural, Fantasy Buy at Amazon.com Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey Supernatural fantasy’s best antihero returns, in the high-octane follow-up to Richard Kadrey’s acclaimed Sandman Slim James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend’s murder, and saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore? You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It’s a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse. Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography and drafts Stark as his bodyguard. Sandman Slim has to swim with the human and inhuman sharks of L.A.’s underground power elite. That’s before the murders start. And before he runs into the Czech porn star who isn’t quite what she seems. Even before all those murdered people start coming back from the dead and join a zombie army that will change our world and Stark’s forever. Death bites. Life is worse. All things considered, Hell’s not…
Jake Helman Files #2 October 2010 On Sale: October 1, 2010 Featuring: Jake Helman ISBN: 1605421707 EAN: 9781605421704 Trade Size Add to Wish List Horror Buy at Amazon.com Desperate Souls by Gregory Lamberson They’re not breathing. That’s why they’re so still. But that’s not possible . . . Eleven months after battling Nicholas Tower and the demon Cain, Jake Helman has set up shop as a private investigator in Lower Manhattan. When a woman hires Jake to prove that her dead grandson is dealing a deadly new drug called “Black Magic” on a Brooklyn street corner, Jake uncovers a vicious drug lord’s plot to use voodoo to seize control of the city. While panic grips New York City, Jake Helman battles gun- wielding zombie assassins, hallucinations, and betrayal at every corner. But voodoo creates more terrors than zombies, and Jake finds himself poised on the edge of insanity as he fights to restore the soul of the one person he trusts. Previous Picks
Lose Yourself October 2010 On Sale: October 1, 2010 Featuring: Carrie Sawyer; Sam Crider 374 pages ISBN: 0373795750 EAN: 9780373795758 Paperback $4.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Shiver by Jo Leigh One touch is all it takes… Welcome to the Crider Inn, one of the most haunted spots in Colorado, and the venue for this year’s ghostly convention. Mingle with fellow fans. Be prepared for a week of unexpected encounters and spine-tingling exploration…. Comic-strip artist Carrie Sawyer doesn’t actually believe in ghosts—she only agreed to accompany her best friend on this crazy trip. What she does believe is that hotel owner Sam Crider is mind-bendingly delish! And since this vacation is all about dark, empty hotel rooms and late nights, it’s perfect for some naughty, after-hours encounters of the X-rated kind…. The kind that can make a girl shiver with temptation! And fear the unknown… Trick or Treat?…Treat Yourself This Halloween! Excerpt The dude’s elbow poked the side of her boob. Again. Carrie couldn’t tell if he was doing it on purpose or if he was just clueless. If she had to make a guess, it would be clueless. It was bad enough the Crider Inn…
November 2009 On Sale: November 16, 2009 240 pages ISBN: 0345508564 EAN: 9780345508560 Paperback $14.00 Add to Wish List Paranormal – Supernatural Buy at Amazon.com A “Must Have” how-to for the new vamp! The New Vampire’s Handbook by Scott Sherman, Anita Serwacki, Chris Pauls, Janet Ginsburg, Joe Garden A Guide for the Recently Turned Creature of the Night Being turned into a vampire is the easy part. Actually becoming a vampire is far more difficult. In today’s world of vampire-obsessed pop culture, misinformation abounds. A newly turned vampire who looks to movies and novels for answers to everlasting life’s questions will inevitably be reduced to a smoldering pile of dust. So whom can you, a neophyte immortal, trust to provide reliable information and proven strategies for leading your best and bloodiest existence? The Vampire Miles Proctor, editor of The New Vampire’s Handbook. In this definitive guide, the newly turned will find • a head-to-toe look at your vampiric body: how to harness your new powers to dispatch mortal enemies, maintain your fangs, and embrace your vampirosexuality • methods for luring prey, faking your way through meals, approaching other vampires, and creating a four-hundred-year financial plan • tips on acting your…