June 2009 On Sale: May 26, 2009 Featuring: Nick Santangelo; Tori Morgan 336 pages ISBN: 050552693X EAN: 9780505526939 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com A Fresh Fiction favorite is a finalist for the 2010 RWA RITA category Contemporary Single Title. A Little Light Magic by Joy Nash When a girl with no family meets a guy with too much… For Tori Morgan, family’s a blessing the universe hasn’t sent her way. Her parents are long gone, her chance of having a baby is slipping away, and the only thing she can call her own is a neglected old house. What she wants more than anything is a place where she belongs…and a big, noisy clan to share her life. For Nick Santangelo, family’s more like a curse. His nonna is a closet kleptomaniac, his mom’s a menopausal time bomb and his motherless daughter is headed for serious boy trouble. The last thing Nick needs is another female making demands on his time. But summer on the Jersey shore can be an enchanted season, when life’s hurts are soothed by the ebb and flow of the tides and love can bring together the most unlikely prospects….
October 2009 On Sale: October 13, 2009 Featuring: Moira Leahy 304 pages ISBN: 0307461572 EAN: 9780307461575 Hardcover $24.00 Add to Wish List Romance Romantic Buy at Amazon.com The Last Will of Moira Leahy by Therese Walsh This haunting debut novel explores the intense bond of sisterhood as a grieving twin searches for her own identity in the ruins of her sister’s past. A LOST SHADOW Moira Leahy struggled growing up in her prodigious twin’s shadow; Maeve was always more talented, more daring, more fun. In the autumn of the girls’ sixteenth year, a secret love tempted Moira, allowing her to have her own taste of adventure, but it also damaged the intimate, intuitive relationship she’d always shared with her sister. Though Moira’s adolescent struggles came to a tragic end nearly a decade ago, her brief flirtation with independence will haunt her sister for years to come. A LONE WOMAN When Maeve Leahy lost her twin, she left home and buried her fun-loving spirit to become a workaholic professor of languages at a small college in upstate New York. She lives a solitary life now, controlling what she can and ignoring the rest– the recurring nightmares, hallucinations about a child with…
October 2009 On Sale: October 20, 2009 224 pages ISBN: 1416982647 EAN: 9781416982647 Hardcover $16.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Buy at Amazon.com Finalist RITA for Best First Book and Young Adult Nothing Like You by Lauren Strasnick When Holly loses her virginity to Paul, a guy she barely knows, she assumes their encounter is a one-night stand. After all, Paul is too popular to even be speaking to Holly…and he happens to have a long-term girlfriend, Saskia. But ever since Holly’s mom died six months ago, Holly has been numb to the world, and she’s getting desperate to feel something, anything–so when Paul keeps pursuing her, Holly relents. Paul’s kisses are a welcome diversion…and it’s nice to feel like the kind of girl that a guy like Paul would choose. But things aren’t so simple with Saskia around. Paul’s real girlfriend is willowy and perfect… and nothing like Holly. To make matters worse, she and Holly are becoming friends. Suddenly the consequences of Holly’s choices are all too real, and Holly stands to lose more than she ever realized she had. Excerpt We were parked at Point Dume, Paul and I, the two of us tangled together, half…
Furies #1 January 2009 On Sale: December 30, 2008 Featuring: Lisa Maxwell; Rafe Sullivan 336 pages ISBN: 0505527936 EAN: 9780505527936 Paperback $5.87 Add to Wish List Romance, Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com 2010 Romance Writers of America RITA finalist for Best First Book. Stolen Fury by Elisabeth Naughton DANGEROUS LIAISONS Oh, is he handsome. And charming. And sexy as all get out. Dr. Lisa Maxwell isn’t the type to go home with a guy she barely knows. But, hey, this is Italy and the red-blooded Rafe Sullivan seems much more enticing than cataloging a bunch of dusty artifacts. After being fully seduced, Lisa wakes to an empty bed and, worse yet, an empty safe. She’s staked her career as an archaeologist on collecting the three Furies, a priceless set of ancient Greek reliefs. Now the one she had is gone. But Lisa won’t just get mad. She’ll get even. She tracks Rafe to Florida, and finds the sparks between them blaze hotter than the Miami sun. He may still have her relic, but he’ll never find all three without her. And they’re not the only ones on the hunt. To beat the other treasure seekers, they’ll have to partner up—because…
December 2009 On Sale: November 24, 2009 Featuring: Charlie Madigan 416 pages ISBN: 1439109656 EAN: 9781439109656 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com 2010 Romance Writers of America RITA finalist for Best First Book. The Better Part Of Darkness by Kelly Gay The city is alive tonight… and it’s her job to keep it that way. Atlanta: it’s the promised city for the off-worlders, foreigners from the alternate dimensions of heaven-like Elysia and hell-like Charbydon. Some bring good works and miracles. And some bring unimaginable evil…. Charlie Madigan is a divorced mother of one, and a kick-ass cop trained to take down the toughest human and off-world criminals. She’s recently returned from the dead after a brutal attack, an unexplained revival that has left her plagued by ruthless nightmares and random outbursts of strength that make doing her job for Atlanta P.D.’s Integration Task Force even harder. Since the Revelation, the criminal element in Underground Atlanta has grown, leaving Charlie and her partner Hank to keep the chaos to a dull roar. But now an insidious new danger is descending on her city with terrifying speed, threatening innocent lives: a deadly, off-world narcotic known…
January 2010 On Sale: December 30, 2009 Featuring: Abby Angel; Simeon Keller 292 pages ISBN: 1419920685 EAN: 9781419920684 Trade Size $14.99 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com 2010 Romance Writers of America RITA Finalist for Best First Book Angel Vindicated by Viola Estrella Abby Angel doesn’t always enjoy her job, but she excels at it. Deporting unruly demons back to Hell is her specialty. Her personal life, on the other hand, could use a little work. The virtuous gene seems to be missing in this particular Angel, getting Abby into more trouble than she likes to admit. To date, her biggest vice has been Siméon Keller, a half-demon/half-human, who effortlessly managed to seduce Abby five years ago. She’s avoided him ever since but can’t seem to knock the bad reputation the blunder has branded on her. Now the threat of a demon rebellion has Angels, Inc. overwhelmed and Abby must trust Siméon to help her find the fiends threatening to destroy Earth’s only salvation. Staying out of Siméon’s bed is the least of her worries as she fights for the lives of all Angels and humans everywhere. Previous Picks
November 2009 On Sale: November 10, 2009 Featuring: Caros Viruathos; Pelonia Valeria 288 pages ISBN: 0373828241 EAN: 9780373828241 Mass Market Paperback $5.50 Add to Wish List Inspirational Fiction Historical, Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com 2010 RITA Finalist for Best First Book The Gladiator by Carla Capshaw His feats were legendary, his love extraordinary He won his fame—and his freedom—in the gory pits of Rome’s Colosseum. Yet the greatest challenge for once-legendary gladiator Caros Viriathos comes to him through a slave. His slave, the beautiful and mysterious Pelonia Valeria. Her secret brings danger to his household but offers Caros a love like he’s never known…. Should anyone learn she is a Christian, Pelonia will be executed. Her faith threatens not only herself, but her master. Can she convince a man who found fame through unforgiving brutality to show mercy? And when she’s ultimately given the choice, will Pelonia choose freedom or the love of a gladiator? Excerpt Rome 81 A.D. Angry, unfamiliar voices penetrated Pelonia’s awareness. Floating between wakefulness and dark, she couldn’t budge her heavy limbs. Every muscle ached. A sharp pain drummed against her skull. The voices died away, then a woman’s words broke through the haze. “She wakes….
May 2009 On Sale: May 12, 2009 Featuring: Maude DeVane; Guy Daley 256 pages ISBN: 0373715617 EAN: 9780373715619 Mass Market Paperback $5.50 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com 2010 RITA Finalist for Best First Book He Calls Her Doc by Mary Brady The town isn’t big enough for both of them… Maude DeVane is home in Montana to prove to the set-in-their-ways townsfolk that she’s the doctor they need. What she doesn’t need is an arrogant E.R. physician competing on her own turf. Especially if he’s Guy Daley. Five years ago they shared a kiss she’s been trying to forget ever since. And that’s not possible with Guy here raising his teenage niece and spending far too much time at Maude’s clinic. It’s like a prescription to fall for him again. Worse, Guy’s presence is not helping her with the townsfolk. How can she be their GP if they seek him for treatment? And if she has to leave the valley behind, will she lose her chance to find healing…and love? Two Docs are Better Than One! Previous Picks
Black Ops #5May 2010 On Sale: May 18, 2010 Featuring: Sophie Baylor; Wyatt Savage 400 pages ISBN: 1439153612 EAN: 9781439153611 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Risk No Secrets by Cindy Gerard An unyielding enemy… an inescapable desire… A RED-HOT ATTRACTION . . . Twelve years of chasing bad guys didn’t erase beautiful Sophie Baylor from Wyatt Savage’s memory. If he had another chance, he’d never let her leave. So when she tracks him down from El Salvador and begs for help, he doesn’t ask questions—he just goes. STARTS WITH A TERRIFYING THREAT . . . Sophie is grateful her daughter survived a kidnapping attempt, but she won’t forgive herself until the girl who was mistakenly abducted is safe. Wyatt is the only man brave enough to take on the mysterious terrorists behind the crime—and the one irresistible man she wishes she had never let go. . . . AND UNLEASHES AN UNFORGETTABLE ADVENTURE. Sophie knows Central America’s steamy jungles and sticky politics better than anyone. Yet she refuses to hide in fear. Then she becomes the enemy’s number one target. Wyatt lost her once, and he won’t lose her again—even if he…
McCloud June 2010 On Sale: May 25, 2010 Featuring: Kev McCloud 320 pages ISBN: 0758228651 EAN: 9780758228659 Hardcover $20.95 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Fade To Midnight by Shannon McKenna Gone But Not Forgotten Davy…Connor…Sean.. . Three brothers who have conquered their demons, but they’ve never forgotten their long lost brother, Kev, whom they believed to be dead. When the McCloud brothers discover Kev is alive, they won’t rest until they find him… Beaten and tortured almost to death, Kev Larsen was found eighteen years earlier in a warehouse alley. He survived his brutal ordeal, but his memories before that night were completely erased. When he nearly dies from trying to save someone from drowning, the brain surgery he has to save his life triggers fragmented, terrifying memories. With only these memories and the name of his torturer to guide him, Kev is determined to unlock the secrets to his past. Edie Parrish has always been good at not letting anyone get too close to her. If someone were to learn of her unusual gift, her life would be immediately jeopardized. But when Kev Larsen discovers who she really is, Edie has only one choice: to…