ACRO #5 August 2010 On Sale: July 27, 2010 Featuring: Marlena West; Sela Kahne 368 pages ISBN: 0385342284 EAN: 9780385342285 Trade Size $15.00 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense, Erotica Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Tempting the Fire by Sydney Croft They play with passion. They play with fire. They play for keeps. EXTREME HEAT. EXTREME HUNGER. A JUNGLE EDEN ABLAZE WITH TEMPTATION.. Shockwaves shoot through the Agency for Covert Rare Operatives (ACRO) when horrific video surfaces from the Brazilian rain forest. A team of Navy SEALs has been nearly wiped out by something sinister and superhuman. Now ACRO agents Sela Kahne and Marlena West head to the world’s most unforgiving jungle in pursuit of a mythical monstrosity with a taste for human blood. And the only path that will take them to the creature runs through two men, each hiding his own dark secret. Sela is an expert on cryptozoology with a sideline skill that could prove invaluable: when she makes love to a man, she engulfs his innermost thoughts. Teamed with Marlena, Sela makes contact with the lone SEAL survivor, Chance McCormack. Meanwhile Logan Mills, the man who rescued Chance, leads his private company on a hunt that has…

Goddard Project September 2010 On Sale: August 31, 2010 Featuring: Roman Chernichenko; Tanya Ruston 320 pages ISBN: 0758242018 EAN: 9780758242013 Paperback $15.00 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Close Quarters by Lucy Monroe Opposites attract… if they don’t combust first! To some, he is an assassin. To others, he’s merely the man who gets the job done when no one else can. Now politico-military black-ops leader Roman Chernichenko has to take out the leak in an espionage plot that could destabilize all of Africa. Nothing will distract him from his mission. Not even the deliciously appealing blonde who’s awoken his deepest desires – and just happens to be his target… Tanya Ruston is a beautiful and brainy do-gooder – and now Roman is supposed to dispose of her when all he really wants to do is seduce her. Soon it’s clear Tanya’s no information agent – and now that his conscience has gotten the better of him, he and Tanya are on the run from the good guys and bad. If they’re going to make it out alive, Roman will have to act fast – and stop thinking about how he’s going to get his feisty new…

Deadly #1 August 2010 On Sale: August 1, 2010 384 pages ISBN: 0446559245 EAN: 9780446559249 Mass Market Paperback $6.99 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Deadly Fear by Cynthia Eden TWO BRILLIANT AGENTS FBI Special Agent Monica Davenport has made a career out of profiling serial killers. But getting inside the twisted minds of the cruel and the sadistic has taken its toll: She’s walled herself off from the world. Yet Monica can’t ignore fellow agent Luke Dante, the only man who ever broke through her defenses. ONE DREAM TEAM Luke has the unique ability to put victims at ease…professionally, he and Monica made a perfect team. Now they’re reunited to catch a murderer who uses his victims’ deepest, darkest fears for sport – but their investigative skills aren’t enough. Luke and Monica will have to face the secrets from their past, the ones that terrify them the most, if they are to have a future together. But can they catch a killer whose weapon is…DEADLY FEAR Fast-paced, action- packed romantic suspense that will leave you breathless with anticipation. Previous Picks

KGI #1 September 2010 On Sale: September 7, 2010 Featuring: Ethan Kelly; Rachel Kelly 304 pages ISBN: 0425227944 EAN: 9780425227947 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com The Darkest Hour by Maya Banks The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super elite, top secret, family-run business. Qualifications: High intelligence, rock hard body, military background. Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the US government can’t… It’s been one year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly last saw his wife Rachel alive. Overwhelmed by grief and guilt over his failures as a husband, Ethan shuts himself off from everything and everyone. His brothers have tried to bring Ethan into the KGI fold, tried to break through the barriers he’s built around himself, but Ethan refuses to respond… until he receives anonymous information claiming Rachel is alive. To save her, Ethan will have to dodge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise. And even if he succeeds, he’ll have to force Rachel to recover memories she can’t and doesn’t want to relive—the minute by minute terror of her darkest hour—for their love, and their lives, may…

Bullet Catchers #8 October 2009 On Sale: September 29, 2009 Featuring: Constantine Xenakis; Lizzie Dare 352 pages ISBN: 1439102228 EAN: 9781439102220 Paperback $7.00 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Reader Alert! It’s time to get caught up on the Bullet Catcher series. Roxanne St. Claire has a new Romantic Suspense trilogy coming November 2010. Make Her Pay by Roxanne St. Claire Sometimes it takes a thief to catch a thief Bullet Catcher and former Navy SEAL Constantine Xenakis has infiltrated a dive ship to discover who’s plundering priceless gems from a legendary sunken Spanish galleon. When he catches Lizzie Dare red-handed in the locked treasure room, her story of a stolen ancestral legacy convinces him to work with the sexy thief instead of turning her in — and not just because he wants to find the real culprit. Lizzie is willing to risk everything to save the Bombay Blue Diamonds from her sworn enemy, even if that means giving in to an irresistible desire to get closer to her accomplice. But when passion hits them like a rogue wave and danger surrounds them like a school of hungry sharks, their adventure on the high seas turns treacherous…and…

Protectors #1 August 2010 On Sale: July 27, 2010 Featuring: Nicole Pearce; Sam Reston 320 pages ISBN: 0061808261 EAN: 9780061808265 Paperback $13.99 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Into The Crossfire by Lisa Marie Rice The tough former Navy SEAL swore he didn’t have a heart…until now. Former Navy SEAL Sam Reston keeps to himself. His world is dangerous, uncertain, violent…and there is no room in it for the helpless and weak. Then the most beautiful woman in the world moves in next door to him . . . . Nicole Pearce’s life is complicated enough – with an ailing father and a new business to worry about – and the last thing she needs is to get involved with a secretive, hard-bodied, hardheaded neighbor. Yet Sam leaves her breathless – her body tingling with erotic desire – and it takes every ounce of her fabled control to resist offering herself to him, no strings attached. What she doesn’t know is that Sam Reston is on an undercover assignment . . . and she’s about to step into the crossfire. Never has Sam ached for a woman so badly, and he’s never fallen in love before. Now…

Talk Radio #1 January 2010 On Sale: January 5, 2010 Featuring: Maggie Walsh 320 pages ISBN: 0451228774 EAN: 9780451228772 Paperback $6.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Cozy Buy at Amazon.com Win a set of The Talk Radio Mysteries Dead Air by Mary Kennedy How’s she going to talk her way out of this one? The first in an original new series. When a psychologist hits Florida’s airwaves, there’s no telling who she’s reaching… …and there’s no telling who wants to reach back. Maggie left her clinical practice in Manhattan and moved to sunny Cypress Grove, Florida, where she became host of WYME’s “On the Couch with Maggie Walsh.” From co-dependent wives to fetish fiends, all the local crazies love her show. Then threats start pouring in against one of the station’s special guests-self-styled new age prophet Guru Sanjay Gingii. When one of the threats becomes a deadly reality, Maggie’s new roommate, Lark, is surprisingly the prime suspect. Now, Maggie has to prove Lark innocent while dealing with a killer who needs more than just therapy… Previous Picks

Dirty Business #3 April 2010 On Sale: April 13, 2010 Featuring: Paula Holliday 256 pages ISBN: 0312569947 EAN: 9780312569945 Hardcover $24.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Cozy Buy at Amazon.com Dead Head by Rosemary Harris When Paula Holliday learns that one of her new friends is actually a fugitive who’s been on the run for years, she’s hired to find the person who outed the woman and in doing so finds that a lot of people are not always who they seem to be. The third entry in the suburban noir series which Carolyn Hart called “quirky, original and captivating” and the Connecticut Post called “a sophisticated mix of comedy, romance and murder.” Excerpt “It’s a false lamium,” I said. Babe Chinnery folded her muscular arms, appraised the plant, and said simply, “If it’s not a lamium, why in hell do you keep calling it one?” “Things aren’t always what they seem to be.” “Thank you, Yoda.” The woman had a good point. She usually did. Despite the rock ’n’ roll outts, the hair color that changed with the New England seasons, and the boyfriend twenty years her junior, Babe had more common sense than most of the people I…

Books By The Bay #1 June 2010 On Sale: June 1, 2010 Featuring: Olivia Limoges 320 pages ISBN: 042523522X EAN: 9780425235225 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Amateur Sleuth, Mystery Cozy Buy at Amazon.com A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams Death is read between the lines. In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you’ll find plenty of characters, ne’er-do-wells, and even a few celebs trying to duck the paparazzi. But when murder joins this curious community, the Bayside Book Writers are there to get the story… Olivia Limoges is the subject of constant gossip. Ever since she came back to town-a return as mysterious as her departure-Olivia has kept to herself, her dog, and her unfinished novel. With a little cajoling from the eminently charming writer Camden Ford, she agrees to join the Bayside Book Writers, break her writer’s block, and even make a few friends… But when townspeople start turning up dead with haiku poems left by the bodies, anyone with a flair for language is suddenly suspect. And it’s up to Olivia to catch the killer before she meets her own surprise ending. A great debut mystery series featuring writers Previous Picks

Cats And Curious Mystery #2June 2010 On Sale: June 1, 2010 352 pages ISBN: 0425234320 EAN: 9780425234327 Paperback $14.00 Add to Wish List Mystery Pet Lovers, Mystery Cozy Buy at Amazon.com Nine Lives Last Forever by Rebecca M. Hale “Follow the frogs…” My cats Rupert and Isabella didn’t need a note telling them to follow the frogs. When the green intruders first began appearing in the antiques shop I had inherited from my Uncle Oscar, my feline friends instantly gave chase. But why were frogs also turning up in San Francisco’s City Hall building? And what did my late uncle’s mysterious note to follow them mean? Before long I would be caught up in the chase myself, along with a crazy crew of my uncle’s oddball friends—as well as his oldest enemy, a master of disguise. With rumors of hidden gold, political conspiracies, faked deaths, and cold- blooded betrayal in the air, I had to try hard not to leap to any conclusions until my kitties and I uncovered the truth, warts and all… A lively book filled with quirky characters and interesting tidbits of San Francisco history. Previous Picks