PJ Sugar #2 February 2010On Sale: February 1, 2010Featuring: PJ Sugar300 pages ISBN: 1414313136EAN: 9781414313139Trade Size$13.99 Mystery Woman Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Double Troubleby Susan May Warren With one case firmly under her belt, PJ Sugar is ready to dive into her career as a private investigator. Or at least a PI’s assistant until she can prove herself to Jeremy Kane, her new boss. Suddenly PJ’s seeing crime everywhere. Everyone’s a suspect. But is it just in her head, or can she trust her instincts. When she takes on her first official case–house sitting for a witness in protective custody–Jeremy assures her there’s no danger involved. But it soon becomes clear that there is someone after the witness… and now PJ. Can she find the suspect and prove she’s ready for that promotion? Or will she give in to Boone’s please to quite and accept his proposal? Excerpt Chapter 1 PJ Sugar had been born to sneak up on people. She clearly possessed the instincts of a panther, with the ability to find her prey and slink up to them in the shadows, pouncing only when they least suspected. Suspected adulterer Rudy Bagwell didn’t have a prayer of escaping. “I’m…

Murder 101 Mystery #3November 2009On Sale: November 3, 2009Featuring: Alison; Bobby Crawford352 pages ISBN: 0312376766EAN: 9780312376765Mass Market Paperback$6.99 Mystery Amateur Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Quick Studyby Maggie Barbieri She thought that dating a good-looking cop would be exciting and involve lots of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crooks. So why hasn’t NYPD officer Bobby Crawford ever invited English professor Alison on any high-speed car chases or stakeouts? Life on the sleepy college campus just north of Manhattan may not have changed all that much with Alison’s new romance. But things are about to heat up when an man named Hernan Escalante asks Alison for a favor: Can she help locate his nephew, an illegal Ecuadorian immigrant named Jose, who has mysteriously gone missing? Always up for a challenge, Alison agrees to help Hernan—and begins her investigation by asking Bobby for some expert advice. Turns out Bobby already knows about what happened to Jose, since he’s the one who pulled his corpse out of the Hudson River a few days earlier. With this case, it seems Alison’s still got a lot to learn… Excerpt “I don’t know who you are, but I love you!” The voice was deep,…

Rough Riders, #8 November 2009On Sale: November 3, 2009Featuring: Keely McKay; Jack DonohueISBN: 1605046841EAN: 9781605046846e-Book$5.50 Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com All Jacked Upby Lorelei James Pulling off the ultimate con…if they can keep from pulling off their clothes. Keely McKay knows Jack—and Jack Donohue is a certified pain in her Wranglers. The lone girl in the prolific McKay family, Keely needs another man giving her orders like she needs a hole in her boot. What she does need is a restoration specialist so she can open her physical therapy clinic—and prove she’s left her wild-child days behind. That means dealing with buttoned-down, uptight Jack. Jack is this close to securing a career make-or-break project, until he learns his lack of marital status puts him out of contention. When the notoriously hot-tempered and hot-bodied Keely begs him for help, he proposes a crazy idea. He’ll oversee her project—if she acts the part of his loving fiancée. Their sizzling lust makes it all too easy to go from butting heads to knocking boots—but outside the bedroom they’re as mismatched as ever. The McKays remind Jack of the humble upbringing he left behind, and cowgirl Keely feels she doesn’t measure up to…

February 2010On Sale: February 1, 2010Featuring: Katie O’Roarke; Shintaro352 pages ISBN: 0373605404EAN: 9780373605408Trade Size$13.95 Romance Historical, Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com The Blonde Samuraiby Jina Bacarr Spring 1873: I arrived in Japan a virgin bride, heartsick and anxious beyond measure. Yet I embraced this perplexing world with my soul laid bare after uncovering an erotic, intoxicating power I hardly knew that I, Katie O’Roarke, possessed. Japan was a world away from my tedious Western existence, a welcome distraction from my recent marriage to a cold and cruel husband. But when James attacked me in a drunken rage, I could tolerate it no longer…. I had no choice but to escape into the surrounding hills. I awoke in the arms of Akira, a young Samurai, and it was he who took me to Shintaro, the head of the powerful Samurai clan. At first distrustful, Shintaro came to me every day for a fortnight until my need for him made my heart race at the very sound of his feet upon the wooden floor. He taught me the way of the Samurai—loyalty, honor, self-respect—and the erotic possibilities of inner beauty unleashed. It is his touch that shatters my virginal reserve, evoking…

Bound Hearts #11 January 2010On Sale: January 5, 2010Featuring: Kahlid Mustafa; Marty Mathews320 pages ISBN: 0312541864EAN: 9780312541866Trade Size$14.99 Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com Guilty Pleasureby Lora Leigh The sizzling new erotic tale from New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh Marty Mathews had always known about the secret, forbidden pleasures that the women she had grown up with enjoyed. Women whose husbands or lovers were members of the exclusive “Club,” where they took a selected “third” into their beds. And there is one man — a dangerous, forbidden man — who is part of this world and who has haunted Marty’s dreams for years. But she had been the FBI agent assigned to shadow him, making him completely off limits. . . That is until Khalid is cleared and Marty is released from her assignment. Now, all bets are off. . . The beautiful, fierce Marty Mathews is the one woman Khalid hungers for like no other and is the one woman he dare not let himself have. His past dogs his every step and danger lurks around every corner. If he wants to keep her safe, he must stay away from her. But the power of their desire…

Wild Ride to Love #1December 2009On Sale: December 1, 2009Featuring: Theresa Fallon; Damien Black320 pages ISBN: 0758238258EAN: 9780758238252Paperback$12.95 Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com Sex Driveby Susan Lyons Over the limit… When Dr. Theresa Fallon meets a long, lean stranger in business class, she’s suddenly ready for anything. There’s something about Damien Black that makes her want to surrender immediately… Which is why she accepts Damien’s spontaneous offer of a sizzling getaway. All in the name of research, of course. And once the pretty professor slips between the sheets with this hard-bodied man of mystery, she discovers the meaning of the term erotic pleasure… This hot story has enough humor to make you laugh out loud and enough heat to set the pages on fire. Excerpt [Theresa and Damien, strangers, were seated side by side in business class. He’s been flirting and she’s found herself responding. Now dinner is over…] When the flight attendant had gone, Damien watched Theresa add milk to her coffee and stir. Her bare arm moved in circles, graceful and feminine. A smart, strong woman, yet vulnerable and wary. She must have had other lovers since her divorce, but her ex had done such a number…

December 2009On Sale: December 1, 2009Featuring: Antonia Kearny; Heath Solis; Grey Richards320 pages ISBN: 0451228030EAN: 9780451228031Trade Size$15.00 Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com The Satin Sashby Red Garnier Between three lovers, there are ties that bind. Business partners and best friends Grey Richards and Heath Solis are as different as night and day. Grey is calm, confident, and always in control. Heath is as passionate as his smoldering looks. No woman can resist them, and it’s always been easy to share. Until now… Grey is head over heels in love. He’ll do anything to see Antonia Kearny smile, to hear her breath catch, to make her scream his name. And when he realizes that Toni wants another man-and that it’s Heath- he’ll make the ultimate sacrifice… On a decadent weekend in Mexico, Toni will experience the hunger, the touch, the taste of two men. But will her desire bring them together, or tear them apart? Excerpt “Your woman wants me.” Grey Richards froze, then lowered the glass of wine and turned to look at the man facing him. Heath’s jet-black eyes gleamed with a disconcerting mix of devilment and concern. Grey glanced over the crowded room to where Toni stood,…

Forbidden Fantasies February 2010On Sale: February 1, 2010Featuring: Amanda Bauer; Reese Campbell224 pages ISBN: 0373795254EAN: 9780373795253Mass Market Paperback$4.99 Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com Play With Meby Leslie Kelly The best games are played in the dark… Pilot Amanda Bauer has always craved a life of adventure…sexual adventure, that is. Lucky for her, she’s currently getting her thrills by indulging in naughty games with hunky Reese Campbell! After their first explosive encounter, they arrange to get together every couple of months for days filled with fantasy and wild, no-strings sex. And the best part of it? Nobody else knows about it. Nobody! It’s the perfect private indulgence…until they find themselves on YouTube! This steamy story has interesting scenarios, a riveting plot and great character development. Excerpt Halloween It should have been a routine flight. Pittsburgh to Chicago was about as simple an itinerary as Clear-Blue Airlines ever flew. In the LearJet 60, travel time would be under an hour. The weather was perfect, the sky like something out of a kid’s Crayola artwork display. Blue as a robin’s egg, with a few puffy white clouds to set the scene and not a drop of moisture in the air. Crisp, not…

Albright Sisters #3February 2010On Sale: February 2, 2010Featuring: Beatrice Albright; Gareth Berenger320 pages ISBN: 0061657727EAN: 9780061657726Paperback$13.99Romance Historical, Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com Nothing Deniedby Jess Michaels Submit to passion, surrender to desire Shrewish Beatrice Albright is beginning to realize that her difficult nature has consequences. As her seventh unsuccessful Season begins, her younger sister is taken under the wing of her elder sisters and the invitations have dried up. Terrified she’ll be forced into old maidenhood and the company of her mother, she vows to find a groom by Season’s end. Even if he is suspected of murder. The Marquis of Highcroft, Gareth Berenger is just as shunned as Beatrice since he is thought to have murdered his first wife. But when she demands they wed since no one else wants them, he isn’t sure. Gareth is a man of intense sexual desires and dominant predilections and he’s already seen the consequences if his partner cannot accept them. He proposes instead a trial affair. If Beatrice can handle his sexuality, then they will marry. But as much as Beatrice is drawn in my Gareth’s sensual and shocking seduction, she is also afraid to trust and surrender fully. And there…

Remy Chandler #2 April 2009On Sale: April 7, 2009Featuring: Remy Chandler304 pages ISBN: 0451462513EAN: 9780451462510Paperback$14.00 Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Dancing On The Head Of A Pinby Thomas E. Sniegoski Remy Chandler “is a character I can’t wait to see again.” (Christopher Golden, bestselling author of The Lost Ones) Still mourning the loss of his wife, fallen angel Remy Chandler has immersed himself in investigating dangerous supernatural cases. His latest: the theft of a cache of ancient weaponry stolen from a collectorwho deals in antiquities of a dark and dubious nature. The weapons, Remy knows, were forged eons ago and imbued with unimaginable power. And if they fall into the wrong hands, they could be used to destroy not only Heaven but also Earth. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.