September 2010 On Sale: August 24, 2010 384 pages ISBN: 1439123128 EAN: 9781439123126 Mass Market Paperback $9.99 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Demon From The Dark by Kresley Cole A DANGEROUS DEMON SHE CAN’T RESIST . . . Malkom Slaine: tormented by his sordid past and racked by vampiric hungers, he’s pushed to the brink by the green- eyed beauty under his guard. A MADDENING WITCH HE ACHES TO CLAIM . . . Carrow Graie: hiding her own sorrows, she lives only for the next party or prank. Until she meets a tortured warrior worth saving. TRAPPED TOGETHER IN A SAVAGE PRISON . . . In order for Malkom and Carrow to survive, he must unleash both the demon and vampire inside him. When Malkom becomes the nightmare his own people feared, will he lose the woman he craves body and soul? Excerpt Demon plane of Oblivion, City of Ash Year 192 in the Rule of the Dead “Do we go to our death—or worse?” Malkom Slaine gazed over at his best friend, Prince Kallen the Just, wishing he had a better answer for him, anything to ease the apprehension in Kallen’s eyes. As the vampire…

Crimson Moon #6 October 2010 On Sale: September 28, 2010 Featuring: Hunter; Sasha Trudeau 304 pages ISBN: 0312943024 EAN: 9780312943028 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal, Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Left For Undead by L. A. Banks Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau earned a long vacation with her lover and fellow Shadow Wolf, Hunter, after the brutal wolf-like attacks that left New Orleans in an uproar. But when her team calls with news of vampire slayings, Sasha knows it’s only a matter of time before another war breaks out among the supernatural denizens of the world … The vampires are nobody’s ally, but the cold-hearted deaths of their own kind make them even more bloodthirsty than usual. But who is the culprit? With the Seelie and Unseelie courts claiming innocence and aligning together, Sasha’s team is at a loss. Until they discover that they’re facing ancient creatures from the depths of hell itself, bent on unleashing pure fury … Excerpt Elder Vlad stood by the desecrated mausoleum peering down at the charred male corpse. Blue blood slowly blackened beneath the visible pulsing veins in the paper-thin skin of Vlad’s bald head while his black irises…

October 2010 On Sale: October 1, 2010 Featuring: Annie Weaver 256 pages ISBN: 1426710666 EAN: 9781426710667 Paperback Add to Wish List Women’s Fiction Contemporary, Inspirational Fiction Amish Buy at Amazon.com A Simple Amish Christmas by Vannetta Chapman Annie Weaver always planned to return home, but the 20-year old RN has lived in Philadelphia for three years now. As her time of rumschpringe is about to come to an abrupt end, bringing for Annie an overwhelming sense of loneliness. She returns home and finds herself face-to-face with a budding romance with an Amish farmer and Annie has several important choices to make. A touching story of how the true meaning of Christmas can help us overcome life’s struggles. Excerpt Annie Weaver threw her coat and scarf into her locker, slammed it shut, and twirled the lock—once, twice, three times as Jenny had shown her. Turning to go, she nearly ran over her best friend. “Tell me you are not headed out on the floor.” Jenny’s voice sounded like Annie’s frrst-year teacher—stern and low and slightly disappointed. Sporting short blonde hair and a figure even slimmer than Annie’s, Jenny looked nothing like an Amish schoolteacher. “I’m not?” “You are, aren’t you?” Blue…

Maplecreek Amish #1 September 2010 On Sale: August 31, 2010 400 pages ISBN: 0778328058 EAN: 9780778328056 Trade Size $13.95 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Dark Road Home by Karen Harper Murder shatters a quiet Amish community After a murder case threatens her safety, attorney Brooke Benton seeks sanctuary in the quiet Amish community of Maplecreek. Although the locals disagree with her cosmopolitan ways, she soon manages to find a place in their lives. But when a tragic hit-and-run accident turns fatal, Brooke cannot abide by the community’s belief in absolute forgiveness. She wants answers. Daniel Brand left his childhood home to explore the outside world years ago. Now he has returned to his Amish roots, and worldly Brooke Benton does not fit into his plans. But when his niece dies, he slowly agrees that they must bring to justice the driver who killed her—especially when a silent presence continues to threaten the community. Together Brooke and Daniel begin a journey along a dark road, hoping to bring peace to the small community…and maybe lead their hearts home. Excerpt May 9, 1993 Maplecreek, Ohio Some said you can’t go home again, but Daniel Brand was bound to…

Ohio-Country Mystery #1 October 2010 On Sale: September 28, 2010 Featuring: Bishop Eli Miller; Pastor Caleb Troyer; Michael Brandon 256 pages ISBN: 0452296463 EAN: 9780452296466 Paperback (reprint) $13.00 Add to Wish List Mystery Amateur Sleuth, Inspirational Fiction Amish Buy at Amazon.com Blood Of The Prodigal by P. L. Gaus From the tranquil farmlands of Holmes County’s Amish countryside to the choppy waters off Lake Erie’s Middle Bass Island, mystery and foreboding lurk under layers of tradition and repression before boiling to the surface with tragic consequences. Set authentically among the Old Order Amish of Holmes County, Ohio – home to the largest Amish and Mennonite settlements in the world – Blood of the Prodigal offers readers a growing understanding of Amish ways. For Jonah Miller, shunned by his Old Order sect and cast into the wider world, the summer begins with his decision to kidnap his ten-year-old son from the home of the bishop who had exiled Miller a decade earlier. In his desperation to retrieve the boy, the bishop appeals for help to the only “English” men the sect would ever approve. Professor Michael Branden and Pastor Caleb Troyer had been looking forward to the kind of sleepy rural…

Kate Burkholder #2 July 2010 On Sale: June 22, 2010 Featuring: Kate Burkholder 320 pages ISBN: 0312374984 EAN: 9780312374983 Hardcover $24.99 Add to Wish List Suspense Psychological, Thriller Police Procedural Buy at Amazon.com Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo delivers an electrifying thriller in which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family. The Plank family moved from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to join the small Amish community of Painters Mill less than a year ago and seemed the model of the Plain Life—until on a cold October night, the entire family of seven was found slaughtered on their farm.  Police Chief Kate Burkholder and her small force have few clues, no motive, and no suspect.  Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English—and each other—but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary. State agent John Tomasetti arrives on the scene to assist. He and Kate worked together on a previous case during which they began a volatile relationship. They soon realize the disturbing details of this case will test their emotional limits and force them…

Seasons Of Sugarcreek #3 August 2010 On Sale: August 17, 2010 Featuring: Robert Miller; Lilly Allen 256 pages ISBN: 0061852376 EAN: 9780061852374 Paperback $12.99 Add to Wish List Inspirational Fiction Amish Buy at Amazon.com Autumn’s Promise by Shelley Shepard Gray Could an Englisher really give up all that she knows for a chance at true love? Some promises are meant to be broken. . . . Until Robert Miller met Lilly Allen, his world had been dark. A widower after only two years of marriage, he’d been living in a haze, feeling that, at twenty-four, his life was already over. But thanks to his friendship with Lilly, he now has new reasons to wake up each day. He knows his connection to her doesn’t make sense. She’s only nineteen, with a past the whole town talks about. Even more, she’s not Amish, like Robert. A marriage between the two of them could never happen. Lilly’s heart is drawn to Robert, not to his faith. No matter how much she admires his quiet strength and dependability, she doesn’t think she could ever give up her independence and reliance on the modern world. Is their love doomed before it even begins? Previous…

Quilts of Lancaster County #1October 2010 On Sale: October 1, 2010 Featuring: Matthew Bontrager; Jennie King 320 pages ISBN: 1426707630 EAN: 9781426707636 Trade Size $14.99 Add to Wish List Inspirational Fiction Romance Buy at Amazon.com A Time to Love by Barbara Cameron Does time really heal all wounds? War correspondent Jennie King thinks she’s just a temporary guest in her grandmother’s Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man she had a crush on as a teenager, she wonders if God has a new plan for her. Jennie has emotional and physical scars and though she feels she has come home to this man and this place, she’s not sure she can bridge the difference between their worlds. A beautifully inspirational story of the Amish people and of the seasons we go through in our lives. Excerpt Jenny woke from a half-doze as the SUV slowed to approach a four-way stop. “No!” she cried. “Don’t stop!” “I have to stop.” “No!” she yelled as she lunged to grab at the steering wheel. David smacked her hands away with one hand and…

June 2010 On Sale: May 25, 2010 Featuring: Stella Hardesty; Goat Jones 288 pages ISBN: 0312643233 EAN: 9780312643232 Trade Size $13.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Cozy, Mystery Woman Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com A 2010 Macavity Award Nominee for Best First Mystery. The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries. A Bad Day For Sorry by Sophie Littlefield Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she’s so busy delivering home-style justice, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she’s barely got time to run her sewing shop. Since Stella works outside of the law, she’s free to do whatever it takes to be convincing–as long as she keeps her distance from the handsome devil of a local sheriff, Goat Jones. When young mother Chrissy Shaw asks Stella for help with her no-good, husband Roy Dean, it looks like just another standard job. But then Chrissy’s two-year-old son is taken, and Stella finds herself up against a much more formidable…

Harry Hole #4 January 2009 On Sale: January 1, 2009 Featuring: Harry Hole; Anna Bethsen; Tom Waaler 480 pages ISBN: 0061655503 EAN: 9780061655500 Hardcover $25.99 Add to Wish List Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Buy at Amazon.com A 2010 Macavity Award Nominee for Best Novel. The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries. Nemesis by Jo Nesbø Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is a nail-biting thriller from one of the biggest stars in crime fiction. Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier’s head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn’t get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Hole’s girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame decides to get in touch. Former girlfriend and struggling artist Anna Bethsen invites Hole to dinner, and he can’t resist a visit. But the evening ends in an all too familiar way as…