Mace Bauer Mystery #3 August 2010 On Sale: July 1, 2010 Featuring: Mama 336 pages ISBN: 0738719226 EAN: 9780738719221 Trade Size $14.95 Add to Wish List Mystery Cozy Buy at Amazon.com Mama Gets Hitched by Deborah Sharp According to Mama, a Gone with the Wind-themed wedding— including a ring-bearing Pomeranian—is just fine for her fifth trip down the aisle. But what’s a bridezilla to do when the caterer is murdered? Thanks to the nonstop gossip train in their small Florida town, Mama’s gator-wrestling daughter Mace is getting the dirt on who did it. Prime suspects are two East Coast Yankees: the bridegroom’s cousin C’ndee who’s sorely lacking in Southern charm and her gorgeous nephew Christopher whose family may be linked to the Mafia. Previous Picks

Portrait of Crime #1 August 2010 On Sale: August 3, 2010 Featuring: Zeke; Rory 304 pages ISBN: 0425236048 EAN: 9780425236048 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Cozy, Mystery Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Sketch Me If You Can by Sharon Pape She’s a police sketch artist. He’s a dead lawman. Together, they put a face on murder. When her uncle dies, police sketch artist Rory McCain get’s a list of clients from his private detective business and a beautiful, old house with a ghostly inhabitant: Federal Marshal Ezekiel Drummond, aka Zeke. Having a ghost as a housemate is bad enough, but as Rory’s drawn into one of her uncle’s unsolved cases and faces a cold-blooded killer, she may need the marshal’s supernatural help to stay alive. The Old West mingles with modern mystery Excerpt Even as Rory was jumping up from the couch, she was taking aim at the man in the chair. In spite of her trembling hands, she managed to keep him firmly in her sights. How could the shadowy product of her imagination actually exist in the harsh glare of the lamp? The bogey man was never in the closet when you finally built up the courage…

Penny Brannigan #2 July 2010 On Sale: July 20, 2010 Featuring: Penny Brannigan; Gareth Davies 258 pages ISBN: 0312622821 EAN: 9780312622824 Hardcover $24.95 Add to Wish List Mystery Cozy Buy at Amazon.com A Brush With Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan When Penny Brannigan inherits a charming, old-fashioned cottage in the North Wales town of Llanelen, she soon realizes she has come into more than what real estate agents like to describe as a desirable period property: She’s also acquired memories, mystery, and an unsolved, decades-old crime. As Penny sorts through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of letters from a promising young Liverpool artist, A. Jones, who was killed in an accident in 1970. An artist herself, Penny sets out to discover who killed this painter, and is helped by a small group of townsfolk, including her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk. While at a retrospective art exhibition in Liverpool, Penny recognizes what she believes to be a watercolor painted by Jones. But it is attributed to another artist, leading her to suspect that art theft was at the heart of the case, and that Jones’s death was no accident. In her eagerly awaited…

June 2010 On Sale: May 25, 2010 Featuring: Lord Vere; Elissande Edgerton 432 pages ISBN: 0553592440 EAN: 9780553592443 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com Fresh Fiction Readers favorite Summer read! His At Night by Sherry Thomas Love is hottest in the darkness before dawn. Elissande Edgerton is a desperate woman, a virtual prisoner in the home of her tyrannical uncle. Only through marriage can she claim the freedom she craves. But how to catch the perfect man? Lord Vere is used to baiting irresistible traps. As a secret agent for the government, he’s tracked down some of the most devious criminals in London, all the while maintaining his cover as one of Society’s most harmless—and idiotic—bachelors. But nothing can prepare him for the scandal of being ensnared by Elissande. Forced into a marriage of convenience, Elissande and Vere are each about to discover that they’re not the only one with a hidden agenda. With seduction their only weapon—and a dark secret from the past endangering both their lives—can they learn to trust each other even as they surrender to a passion that won’t be denied? A who plays an idiot will have to…

A-Tac #2 July 2010 On Sale: July 1, 2010 Featuring: Madeline Reynard; Drake Flynn 384 pages ISBN: 0446542040 EAN: 9780446542043 Mass Market Paperback $6.99 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Fresh Fiction Readers favorite Summer read! Dangerous Desires by Dee Davis Love is a lethal game. A-Tac is an elite CIA unit masquerading as faculty at an Ivy League college. Brilliant, badass, and seemingly bulletproof, the members of A-Tac are assigned to the riskiest missions and the most elusive targets. When the CIA learns that Madeline Reynard, the mistress of international crime-lord Miguel Ramón, can provide the location of a newly developed bio-chemical weapon, they contact A-Tac. And A-Tac survivalist Drake Flynn is given the responsibility of extracting Madeline from Ramón’s compound, finding the weapon, and transporting them both to a secure location. A woman with nothing to lose, Madeline is willing to risk everything to escape her life with Ramón – even a dangerous trek through the jungle with a man who makes no secret of his disdain. Madeline had an impoverished and dangerous childhood, and she makes no apologies for the life she’s led, but despite mutual animosity, she cannot deny her attraction to Drake….

All The King’s Men #3 June 2010 On Sale: May 27, 2010 Featuring: Lady Linnet; Sit James Rayburn 384 pages ISBN: 0446559865 EAN: 9780446559867 Paperback Add to Wish List Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com Fresh Fiction Readers favorite Summer read! Knight Of Passion by Margaret Mallory HOW CAN THIS PASSIONATE KNIGHT… Renowned beauty Lady Linnet is torn between two desires: revenge on those who destroyed her family or marriage to her childhood sweetheart Sir James Rayburn. One fateful night, she makes a misguided choice: she sacrifices Jamie’s love for a chance at vengeance. TRUST A BEAUTY WITH A PAST? Jamie Rayburn returns to England in search of a virtuous wife-only to find the lovely Linnet as bewitching as ever. Their reckless affair ignites anew, even hotter than before, although Jamie vows to never again trust her with his heart. Then just as Linnet begins to make amends, she’s tempted by one last opportunity to settle old scores. But a final retribution could cost her Jamie’s love – this time forever. Excerpt The stench of the Thames made Sir James Rayburn’s eyes water as he rode through the angry crowd. Men glared at him but moved out of the way of…

Lilly Hawkins #1 August 2010 On Sale: August 10, 2010 Featuring: Lilly Hawkins 288 pages ISBN: 1439155488 EAN: 9781439155486 Trade Size $14.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Amateur Sleuth, Mystery Woman Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Fresh Fiction Readers favorite Summer read! A Bad Day’s Work by Nora McFarland The debut in a new series, A Bad Day’s Work is a fast-paced and funny mystery starring a wonderfully flawed TV shooter. Lilly Hawkins is having one of those days. . . The last thing she needs is a murder to solve. Nothing seems to be going Lilly’s way. A TV news photographer at her hometown television station, she’s one of the hardest working “shooters” there, but her pit-bull personality and a series of unlucky blunders have put her job in jeopardy. So when an urgent story breaks in the middle of the night, Lilly is determined to turn her bad luck around and get the respect she deserves. But the pressure is on; either she delivers amazing video or she’s fired. After busting her butt and dodging the cops, Lilly has what could be the biggest scoop of her career—exclusive video of a murder scene. Or does she have it? Lilly…

Pride #6 June 2010 On Sale: June 1, 2010 Featuring: Bo Novikov; Blayne Thorpe 320 pages ISBN: 0758231687 EAN: 9780758231680 Paperback Add to Wish List Romance Erotica Sensual, Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Fresh Fiction Readers favorite Summer read! Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston Ten years after Blayne Thorpe first encountered Bo Novikov, she still can’t get the smooth-talking shifter out of her head. Now he’s shadowing her in New York-all seven-plus feet of him-determined to protect her from stalkers who want to use her in shifter dogfights. Even if he has to drag her off to an isolated Maine town where the only neighbors are other bears almost as crazy as he is… Let sleeping dogs lie. Bo knows it’s good advice, but he can’t leave Blayne be. Blame it on her sweet sexiness — or his hunch that there’s more to this little wolfdog than meets the eye. Blayne has depths he hasn’t yet begun to fathom — much as he’d like to. She may insist Bo’s nothing but a pain in her delectable behind, but polar bears have patience in spades. Soon she’ll realize how good they can be together. And when she does, animal instinct…

Demonic #2 July 2010 On Sale: July 6, 2010 Featuring: Kellen Markham; Marcella Acosta 352 pages ISBN: 0425234436 EAN: 9780425234433 Paperback $15.00 Add to Wish List Paranormal, Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Fresh Fiction Readers favorite Summer read! My Way To Hell by Dakota Cassidy She never thought he’d be the one. After defying Lucifer to save her best friend Delaney, ex-demon Marcella Acosta has been banished to exist in the plane between heaven and hell-and there isn’t a shopping mall in sight. After numerous failed attempts to contact Delaney through a bunch of hack mediums, Marcella’s at her wits end. But there’s one medium she’s hasn’t tried yet, and he just happens to be Delaney’s scorching hot brother-the one guy who never gave Marcella the time of day… But her heart has other ideas. Thanks to his recently inherited psychic abilities, Kellen Markham has had spirits haunting him day and night-and not only are they just plain annoying, somehow they’re able to touch him. To try and escape, Kellen moves into his sister’s old apartment. But when he finds a box full of stuff that belonged to Marcella-the demon he spent years fighting his fierce attraction to-his not-so-pure thoughts…

July 2010 On Sale: June 29, 2010 400 pages ISBN: 0778328708 EAN: 9780778328704 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) $7.99 Add to Wish List Women’s Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Fresh Fiction Readers favorite Summer read! A Summer In Sonoma by Robyn Carr Girlfriends make the best therapists. Elly, Sable, Barbara Ann and Beth. They have been drawn together by the sudden death of their friend Gabby—and the favor she has asked of them. For these four women, whose own lives have become unhappy works of fiction, a summer spent sorting through Gabby’s personal papers offers the perfect challenge—and the perfect escape. Elly — the intellectual spinster who’s hidden herself within the walls of academia, afraid to admit that she’s tired of being alone. Sable — her bestselling novels have made her a star, but the woman who has everything in fact has nothing except a past she’s desperate to hide. Barbara Ann — the talent behind twenty-six romance novels, who wakes up one day to find she’s lost control of her career, her sanity and her family. Beth — her popular mysteries have become the only way she can fight back against the secret tyranny of her abusive husband. In the house…