April 2007On Sale: April 1, 2007Featuring: Elizabeth Breckenridge; Clint Brady 384 pages ISBN: 037378595XEAN: 9780373785957Paperback$6.99 Religious Fiction Romance, Religious Fiction HistoricalBuy at Amazon.com Where Heaven Begins by Rosanne Bittner With rough miners for shipmates, Elizabeth Breckenridge sets sail to search for her brother in Alaska, wild with the 1890s gold rush. When she falls overboard midjourney, she is rescued by a man very unlike her minister brother— Clint Brady, a cynical bounty hunter who shoots to kill. Together, this unlikely couple struggles to survive the rugged dangers of the beautiful Alaskan frontier. Unexpectedly, Clint comes to love her, and proposes. Elizabeth returns his love, but unless she can help Clint see that heaven is no abstraction in the sky, the grip of the past could cost them a future together…. Excerpt Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause;And deceive not with thy lips.—Proverbs 24:28San Francisco, August 4, 1898“We’ve taken a vote, Elizabeth. We understand you will need to find a job and a place to live, and we are ready to help you there, but you will have to leave Reverend Selby’s residence.” Elizabeth Breckenridge felt as though the blood was leaving her body, beginning with her head…

January 2010On Sale: January 12, 2010320 pages ISBN: 0373837399EAN: 9780373837397Mass Market Paperback$7.99 Romance Anthology Buy at Amazon.com Baby, It’s Cold Outsideby Cindi Myers, Jennifer Greene, Merline Lovelace The best way to keep warm…when the weather turns cold: 1) Seek shelter Opting to spend the holidays in solitude, Emilie Bartlett has found the perfect place: a hunting lodge in Alaska! But when a hunky stranger comes seeking shelter during a blizzard, Emilie wonders if maybe isolation is overrated, after all…. 2) Build a cozy fire Nothing ruins an adventure to Antarctica like being stranded on a lifeboat! But when a hot Air Force pilot rescues Mia Harrelson, she wonders if she’s escaped the danger of freezing only to lose herself in the sexy fire of his eyes…. 3) Curl up with a nice, hot male… She is a consummate professional. Until Stacy Bristol finds herself working on a series of photo shoots with a gorgeous Viking—er, Olympic skier. But the minute his shirt comes off, Stacy is torn between icy professional resolve…and her melting knees! MELTING POINT by Cindi MyersKristjan Gunnarson is Iceland’s first ever Olympic medalist. Coloradoan Stacy Bristol thinks he’ll be the perfect model for her new advertising campaign,…

Alaskan Pilots #2 December 2009On Sale: November 24, 2009Featuring: Isabella Kpoas; Luke Webber336 pages ISBN: 0505527766EAN: 9780505527769Mass Market Paperback$7.99 Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Chillby Stephanie Rowe A MAN WITH NO PAST Luke Webber thinks he’s erased his entire history. New name, new life, no paper trail. He thinks that up in the wilds of Alaska no one will find him. He’s wrong. A WOMAN WITH NO FUTUREWhen Isabella shows up on his doorstep, she’s got a bullet in her shoulder and all that Luke’s been trying to avoid is hot on her trail. Without his help, she’ll die. But helping her will mean surrendering everything—his body, his heart…and quite possibly his life. A fast-paced tale of adventure, suspense and romance set in the Alaska wilderness. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

Kate Shugak December 2009On Sale: December 1, 2009Featuring: Kate Shugak352 pages ISBN: 0312944071EAN: 9780312944070Paperback (reprint)$7.99 Mystery Woman Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Whisper to the Bloodby Dana Stabenow Inside Alaska’s biggest national park, around the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park are uneasy. “But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce” is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular Alaskan skiing champ hired by the company to improve relations with the locals, and pave the way for the mine’s expansion… Then, just as Talia is ready to present her case at town meetings and village breakfasts, there are two brutal murders, including that of a long-standing mine opponent. The investigation falls to Trooper Jim Chopin and, as usual, he could use some help from newly elected Niniltna Native Association chairman and part-time P.I. Kate Shugak. But Kate already has her hands full with a series of attacks on snowmobilers up the Kanuyaq River and the homicide of Park villain Louis Deem. With both cases on the verge of going cold, can Kate take the heat? Excerpt “Grin bought out Mac Devlin.” “Grin?” “Global Harvest Resources Inc. GHRIn. That’s…

November 2009On Sale: November 1, 2009Featuring: Victoria Windhaven; Brant MacQuaid288 pages ISBN: 0373295685EAN: 9780373295685Mass Market Paperback$5.99 Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com Alaskan Renegadeby Kate Bridges Her bounty hunter protector In need of a bodyguard on her mission into the Alaskan wilderness, nurse Victoria Windhaven is shocked to recognize the hired gun as none other than Brant MacQuaid—a man she had thought never to see again! Brant, now a notorious bounty hunter with a burning passion for justice, had once betrayed her.But closely confined in the stagecoach by day, and even more closely combined under the stars by night, Victoria can’t help but dream of turning this renegade into ideal husband material…. Life and loving means taking chances facing insurmountable odds Excerpt Skagway, District of Alaska, late August 1899 That familiar and arrogant way he moved captured her attention. Wearing a tan leather vest and black shirt that barely spanned his wide shoulders, Brant MacQuaid strode down the path as though he still thought he could part the Red Sea. His granite eyes flickered at the stagecoach driver, then he turned and headed straight for her. Her heart leaped. He’d changed a great deal in the five years since Victoria Windhaven…

February 2010On Sale: January 26, 2010Featuring: Mitch Braxton; Lisa Vaughn400 pages ISBN: 0778327477EAN: 9780778327479Mass Market Paperback$7.99 Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Down Riverby Karen Harper In the churning water, she felt her future slipping away… Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. But lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles down river, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they’ve been swept deep into the wilderness. Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive. There’s a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days instead of years. Fast-paced and full of suspense, but will the renewed relationship end in romance? Excerpt Duck Lake LodgeNear Bear Bones, AlaskaAugust 20, 2008 Despite the calm beauty of Duck Lake ten feet below the pine-tree-lined…

Amanda Bell Brown #3 April 2009On Sale: March 24, 2009Featuring: Amanda Bell Brown400 pages ISBN: 1416551956EAN: 9781416551959Trade Size$13.99 Multicultural Mystery, Mystery Woman Sleuth, Mystery Amateur Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Deadly Charmby Claudia Mair Burney When the ominous Thunders roll into Dr. Amanda Bell Brown’s town, the sassy sleuth sees a storm brewing. Disgraced playboy preacher Ezekiel Thunder and his seductive first lady, Nikki, are on the comeback trail, but Bell is less than charmed by the pair. When their toddler, Baby Zeekie, is found dead from an accidental drowning, forensic psychologist Bell suspects foul play in the fatal family, especially after the mama in mourning flirts with Bell’s estranged husband, Jazz. Bell is sickened by the woman’s behavior and the thought of someone murdering an innocent child — or is it morning sickness that’s plaguing her? Between babies and bodies, she pushes past the limits to discover the deadly truth. Sassy Amanda Bell Brown gets to the bottom of another faith-filled mystery when a small child dies Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

Stuff #3 November 2009On Sale: November 2, 2009Featuring: James Lessor; Skip Moore320 pages ISBN: 1933515228EAN: 9781933515229Hardcover$24.95 Mystery Amateur Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Stuff To Spy Forby Don Bruns Could James Lessor and Skip Moore possibly have the right stuff to launch new careers as intelligence professionals? Well, more or less. Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead-end jobs, still living in their ratty apartment in Carol City, Florida, and still dreaming of hitting the big time. It seems those dreams are finally within reach when James lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security system for Synco Systems. There’s a huge commission – and plenty of strings – attached. To collect on the cash, James will have to provide “additional services” by assuming the role of pretend boyfriend of Sarah Crumbly, an employee who’s having an affair with Sandler Conroy, Synco’s married president. When Sandler’s wife offers James a tidy sum for the dirty details about what’s going on at Synco, James and Skip resurrect their entrepreneurial dreams and go into the business of being spies. The spymobile – their beloved, rattletrap of a boxtruck – is on its last legs, and they’ll have to…

Stella Hardesty August 2009On Sale: August 4, 2009Featuring: Stella Hardesty288 pages ISBN: 0312559208EAN: 9780312559205Hardcover$24.99 Mystery Amateur Sleuth, Mystery Woman Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com A Bad Day For Sorryby 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 on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she barely has time to run her sewing shop in her rural Missouri hometown. Some men need more convincing than others, but it’s usually nothing a little light bondage or old-fashioned whuppin’ can’t fix. Since Stella works outside of the law, she’s free to do whatever it takes to get the job done—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 an easy case. Until Roy Dean disappears with Chrissy’s two-year-old son, Tucker. Stella quickly learns that Roy Dean was involved with some very scary men, as she tries to sort out who’s hiding information and who’s merely trying to kill her. It’s going…

October 2009On Sale: October 1, 2009Featuring: Delilah Dickinson304 pages ISBN: 0758225679EAN: 9780758225672Paperback$6.99 Mystery Woman Sleuth, Mystery Amateur Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Frankly My Dear, I’m Deadby Livia J. Washburn No one is surprised when feisty Delilah Dickinson opens her own literary travel agency in Atlanta after her divorce. But during her first group’s tour of an old plantation modeled after Tara from “Gone with the Wind” – complete with a full cast of actors – things go south really fast. The actor playing Clark Gable playing Rhett Butler is found dead, apparently the victim of a fatal dose of Southern in-hospitality. Before anyone can even think ‘Where shall I go? What shall I do?’ Delilah finds herself taking over the investigation when the number one suspect turns out to be her son-in-law. But life starts imitating art when the actors begin taking their roles a little too seriously – believing they actually are Ashley Wilkes, Scarlett O’Hara, and Melanie. Next stop: Sunset Boulevard. Excerpt I didn’t mean to lose it. Really, I didn’t. It must have been the two squabbling teenagers. Or the two annoying adults. Or the pressure of setting up a new business and knowing that if I…