February 2010 On Sale: February 2, 2010 Featuring: Jessica Taylor 368 pages ISBN: 038534399XEAN: 9780385343992Trade Size$15.00 Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Life As I Know It by Melanie Rose Jessica Taylor wakes up in a hospital room only to find that everyone around her thinks she is somebody else. Not only that, she seems to have a husband and four children she doesn’t remember anything about. What she does remember is her quiet single life with her dog Frankie, going to work at her comfortable job, and meeting the man of her dreams in the park just before she was hit by lightning. Soon she discovers that when she goes to sleep she alternates between her two lives, that of Jessica and that of Lauren Richardson. Jessica has no idea what’s happened to her or whether she can get back to life s she knows it. Meanwhile, she has her hands full being a mother to Laurens’ four heartbroken children and a wife to her demanding husband. But as she digs deeper int Lauren’s life, Jessica unearths some secrets, secrets which may tea the family apart. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

April 2010On Sale: April 6, 2010Featuring: Veronica Czaplicki; Haley Rush; Brady Ellis336 pages ISBN: 0425232484EAN: 9780425232484Paperback$14.00 Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Just Like Me, Only Betterby Carol Snow Veronica’s life was over… until she jumped into someone else’s… From the author of Here Today, Gone to Maui, the story of a woman who finally got a life…some else’s. Ever since Veronica’s husband found the love of his life- not her-she’s been a walking zombie with runny mascara. It doesn’t help that she keeps getting mistaken for Haley Rush- the Hollywood starlet whose dazzling life is plastered on every magazine. When Haley’s manager offers Veronica a job as a celebrity double, it only takes a moment before she says yes. Veronica gets to drive Haley’s car, wear her phenomenal clothes-and have fun with her hot celebrity boyfriend, Brady Ellis. Too bad the job’s only part-time, and at the end of the day she has to return to her life as a cash- strapped substitute teacher and cub scout mom. But when real sparks fly with Brady, is it a fantasy come true or a disaster in disguise? Excerpt I remember the exact moment when Haley Rush’s fame reached its tipping point….

August 2008On Sale: July 22, 2008Featuring: Aaron Findley; Beth Diamond; Mindy Sherman319 pages ISBN: 0061253774EAN: 9780061253775Trade Size$13.95 Women’s Fiction Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Dear Neighbor, Drop Deadby Saralee Rosenberg “A “for sale” sign on our lawn is fine unless you’re not the one who put it there.” Nora Ephron hates her neck, but Mindy Sherman hates her whole body. A forty-one year old mother of three, she is still trying to squeeze into jaws-of-life jeans, for in her Long Island neighborhood, size four is, well, fat. Not even her husband, Artie, is immune. “Someone called us Shrek and Fiona,” she cried. That someone is next door neighbor, Beth Diamond, a tall, toned *MILF who seeks perfection in everything from her kids to her carpools, referring to her BlackBerry for infractions when Mindy disregards either. Lucy and Ethel they are not, so can they play nice when they both enter Downtown Greetings’ talent search and realize they have to compete as a team? Exactly. In this story of fences and defenses, two women who have never shared a recipe suddenly must join forces in order to keep their messy plates spinning. It’s a delicate balancing act, what with out-of-their mind in-laws,…

August 2009On Sale: August 4, 2009336 pages ISBN: 0425227898EAN: 9780425227893Paperback$14.00 Romance Buy at Amazon.com Table Mannersby Mia King Her simple life is more complicated than ever. Deidre McIntosh finally has all the ingredients for a perfect life. She has her own line of cakes and cookies, and the perfect boyfriend, Kevin Johnson, one of Seattle’s top bachelors. Creative, energetic, and loving, Deidre is the person friends go to when they need a helping hand. But when Kevin’s ex-fiancée, the sultry and successful magazine publisher Sabine Durant, suddenly appears in Seattle, it’s Deidre who needs help. Already intimidated by Kevin’s glamorous, moneyed world–and his sister, who wants Deidre out of Kevin’s life–she knows she’s no match for Sabine. Deidre turns to her friends for advice, but finds they’re having crises of their own. When her business begins to slip from her fingers, Deidre knows she must to do something to keep her career and her love life from imploding. Can everyone’s favorite go-to person save herself? The continuation of Deidre’s story from Good Things Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

May 2009On Sale: May 19, 2009Featuring: John Shakespeare; Elizabeth I400 pages ISBN: 0385342829EAN: 9780385342827Hardcover$25.00 Thriller, Historical Buy at Amazon.com Martyrby Rory Clements In this ingenious debut, Rory Clements introduces John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England’s most remarkable investigator, and delivers a tale of murder and conspiracy that succeeds brilliantly as both historical fiction and a crime thriller. In a burnt-out house, one of Queen Elizabeth’s aristocratic cousins is found murdered, her flesh marked with profane symbols. At the same time a plot is discovered to assassinate England’s feared sea warrior Sir Francis Drake – a plot which, if successful, could leave the country open to Spanish invasion. The year is 1587. One man is charged with the desperate task of solving both cases: John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer in Sir Francis Walsingam’s spy network. With the Spanish Armada poised to strike, Mary Queen of Scots awaiting execution and the pikes above London Bridge decorated with the severed heads of traitors, the country is in peril of being overwhelmed by fear, chaos and religious strife. Following a trail of illicit passions and family secrets, Shakespeare travels through a teeming underworld of enemy agents, sorcerers, whores and poets, among whom is his own younger brother,…

September 2009On Sale: September 8, 2009Featuring: Pilate; Mary368 pages ISBN: 1416532633EAN: 9781416532637Paperback$15.00 Religious Fiction, Historical Buy at Amazon.com Girl Maryby Petru Popescu For nearly two millennia, Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus, has been one of the most revered women in history, yet she remains one of the most mysterious. With his empire in crisis, Augustus orders a young Roman spy to find a sign of his divinely inspired power. Concealing his real name, Pontius Pilate enters the Judean desert seeking an unknown miracle. The moment he meets the striking adolescent Mary, he senses that he is in the presence of someone magical. Mary, vigorous, spiritual, and charming, is a girl like many other teenage girls: full of passions and weaknesses, surrounded by her loving family and her close friends, steeped in the mystic traditions of the Jews — territory that defies Roman comprehension. The young Pilate isn’t wrong in believing that Mary is remarkable. On the verge of blossoming womanhood, Mary’s world will soon open to love — and to the miraculous. Full of mystical realism and set against the lushly reimagined settings of the biblical world, Girl Mary is the love story of the beautiful girl, naïve…

February 2010On Sale: February 2, 2010Featuring: Juliet Capelletti352 pages ISBN: 0451229150EAN: 9780451229151Trade Size$15.00 Historical Buy at Amazon.com O, Julietby Robin Maxwell “One of the queens of historical fiction” offers a new take on the mesmerizing young woman and poetess who inspired Shakespeare’s most famous female character. Before Juliet Capelletti lie two futures: a traditionally loveless marriage to her father’s business partner, or the fulfillment of her poetic dreams, inspired by the great Dante. Unlike her beloved friend Lucrezia, who looks forward to her arranged marriage, Juliet has a wild, romantic imagination that knows not the bounds of her great family’s stalwart keep. The latter path is hers for the taking when Juliet meets Romeo Monticecco, a soulful young man seeking peace between their warring families. A dreamer himself, Romeo is unstoppable, once he determines to capture the heart of the remarkable woman foretold in his stars. The breathless intrigue that ensues is the stuff of beloved legend. But those familiar with Shakespeare’s muse know only half the story… Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

March 2010On Sale: March 16, 2010Featuring: Catherine de Valois; Owain Tudor; Christine de Pizan592 pages ISBN: 0061689866EAN: 9780061689864Hardcover$25.99 Historical Buy at Amazon.com The Queen’s Loverby Vanora Bennett A sweeping tale of romance and political maneuvering in an age where women — especially queens – were only allowed peripheral roles. Before the Tudors could rise to power, Catherine de Valois became Queen of two countries by making her own rules Catherine de Valois, daughter of the French king Charles VI, is born into troubled times. Though she is brought up in a royal court, it is a stormy and unstable environment. Before she is out of her teens, Catherine is married off to England’s Henry V as part of a treaty honoring his victory over France. She is terrified at the idea of being married to a man who is a foreigner, an enemy, and a rough soldier, and is forced to leave her home for England. Within two years she is widowed, and mother to the future King of England and France—even though her brother has laid claim to the French crown for himself. Caught between warring factions of her own family and under threat by the powerful lords of…

February 2010On Sale: February 2, 2010Featuring: Rosa Barr416 pages ISBN: 0425232220EAN: 9780425232224Trade Size$15.00 Historical Buy at Amazon.com The Rose Of Sebastopolby Katharine McMahon The #1 international bestseller about love, war and betrayal from the author of The Alchemist’s Daughter In 1854, adventurous Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield with Florence Nightingale’s nursing corps. For Mariella Lingwood, Rosa’s cousin, the war is contained within the letters she receives from her fiancé, Henry, a celebrated surgeon who also has volunteered to work in the shadow of the guns. When Henry falls ill, Mariella impulsively takes an epic journey to the ravaged landscape of the Crimea and the tragic city of Sebastopol. What she finds there, as her world beings to crumble, is that she has much to learn about secrecy, faithfulness, and love… Excerpt Italy, 1855 We arrived in Narni late on a Sunday evening. Although the door to the Hotel Fina was locked the driver roused a servant who stumbled out with creased shirt tails, brought in our luggage and showed us to a bedroom that smelled of unwashed feet. Nora took away my cloak and bonnet, then I snuffed the candles and lay down. A man was shouting in…

March 2010On Sale: March 1, 2010Featuring: Katherine Woodville400 pages ISBN: 1402237669EAN: 9781402237669Paperback$14.99 Historical Buy at Amazon.com The Stolen Crown by Susan Higginbotham The Secret Marriage That Forever Changed The Fate Of England On May Day, 1464, six-year-old Katherine Woodville, daughter of a duchess who has married a knight of modest means, awakes to find her gorgeous older sister, Elizabeth, in the midst of a secret marriage to King Edward IV. It changes everything—for Kate and for England. Then King Edward dies unexpectedly. Richard III, Duke of Gloucester, is named protector of Edward and Elizabeth’s two young princes, but Richard’s own ambitions for the crown interfere with his duties… Lancastrians against Yorkists: greed, power, murder, and war. As the story unfolds through the unique perspective of Kate Woodville, it soon becomes apparent that not everyone is wholly evil—or wholly good. Excerpt As I stood there, at a loss for words and sensing that I had somehow done a Bad Thing, the groom turned and stood, making me gasp. He was tall—well over six feet—and dazzlingly handsome, with hair of a rich brown. Small, sallow, and of middling appearance, I was none of those things, and I averted my eyes as if…