SBC Fighters #5 February 2010On Sale: February 2, 2010Featuring: Gillian Noode; Drew Black320 pages ISBN: 0425232980EAN: 9780425232989Paperback$7.99 Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Back In Blackby Lori Foster In a hookup this hot, someone’s bound to get burned… Never before published from the New York Times bestselling author Gillian is a PR expert hired to smooth out the rough edges on hot- headed sports club president Drew Black. He’s rough, raw and ready for any challenge Gillian throws his way. But which one’s going to end up on top? Excerpt CHAPTER ONE Back in BlackGillian Noode stood against the back wall of the popular bar, Roger’s Rodeo, where many fighters hung out. She was close enough to observe him, but not close enough to get noticed. Yet. At least, not by him. Plenty of other men had already given her the once-over, showing appreciation for her trim black skirt, her low-scooped white blouse and strappy sandals. A few had even tried to strike up a conversation. Though tempted, she’d politely declined. She’d come here for a reason, and Drew Black was it. Dressed in well-worn jeans and a comfortable black T-shirt bearing the logo of the SBC fight organization, the president…

July 2009On Sale: July 1, 2009Featuring: Kristen; Tara256 pages ISBN: 0758234996EAN: 9780758234995Paperback$12.95 Erotica Buy at Amazon.com Games Girls Playby Deanna Lee Taking over the game… Tara makes it her business to work with women who know theirs, namely long time friends Kristen Travis and Sonya Carson. As for pleasure, getting involved with clients is against the rules. So why is Tara letting a soccer star kick her libido into high gear? Sex is a game Kristen plays very well. Still, when confronted with two scorching basketball players who are even hotter for her, she wonders if she can handle both. No need to worry: these boys are used to sharing the court… Sonya’s about ready to call a permanent time-out on her lover, a gridiron giant who takes her place in his bed for granted. Time to break out the handcuffs and teach him a little lesson in giving it up for love. Excerpt “Oh. My. God.” I stared numbly at the television. The phone started to ring as the reporter started to replay the video footage and I reached out for the phone. My hand connected with it and I dragged it to my ear. I swallowed hard as…

May 2008On Sale: May 1, 2008Featuring: Dean Robillard; Blue Bailey400 pages ISBN: 0060734582EAN: 9780060734589Mass Market Paperback$7.99 Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com It’s Football in the US! Natural Born Charmerby Susan Elizabeth Phillips Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip to figure out what’s gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he can’t imagine. A young woman . . . dressed in a beaver suit. Blue Bailey is on a mission to murder her ex. Or at least inflict serious damage. As for the beaver suit she’s wearing . . . Is it her fault that life keeps throwing her curveballs? Witness the expensive black sports car pulling up next to her on the highway and the Greek god stepping out of it. Blue’s career as a portrait painter is the perfect job for someone who refuses…

The Mindhunters #3 November 2009On Sale: November 3, 2009Featuring: Caitlin Fleming; Zach Sharper304 pages ISBN: 0425231143EAN: 9780425231142Paperback$7.99 Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Waking the Deadby Kylie Brant Former forensic anthropologist Caitlin Fleming knows bones. So the investigator is the first one called when seven sets of skeletal remains are found dumped in a makeshift graveyard in the Oregon wilderness. Each skeleton bears the same distinctive marks. And each is minus a skull. Cait needs ourdoors guide Zach Sharper for one reason only— to help her find her way through the Willamette Forest as she pieces together clues. Despite the attraction that burns between them, nothing will be allowed to shake her focus. Until the killer closes in to terminate the investigation…and the ones on the verge of unmasking him… Get ready for lots of twists and turns with an abundance of suspense in this thrilling romance. Excerpt Chapter One Seven stainless steel gurneys were lined up in the morgue, each occupied by a partially assembled skeleton and a large garbage bag. The bones gleamed under the florescent lights. An eighth gurney was heaped with the stray bones that had been found lying separately. Caitlin Fleming’s first thought was that the…

The Mindhunters #3 November 2009On Sale: November 3, 2009Featuring: Caitlin Fleming; Zach Sharper304 pages ISBN: 0425231143EAN: 9780425231142Paperback$7.99 Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Waking the Deadby Kylie Brant Former forensic anthropologist Caitlin Fleming knows bones. So the investigator is the first one called when seven sets of skeletal remains are found dumped in a makeshift graveyard in the Oregon wilderness. Each skeleton bears the same distinctive marks. And each is minus a skull. Cait needs ourdoors guide Zach Sharper for one reason only— to help her find her way through the Willamette Forest as she pieces together clues. Despite the attraction that burns between them, nothing will be allowed to shake her focus. Until the killer closes in to terminate the investigation…and the ones on the verge of unmasking him… Get ready for lots of twists and turns with an abundance of suspense in this thrilling romance. Excerpt Chapter One Seven stainless steel gurneys were lined up in the morgue, each occupied by a partially assembled skeleton and a large garbage bag. The bones gleamed under the florescent lights. An eighth gurney was heaped with the stray bones that had been found lying separately. Caitlin Fleming’s first thought was that the…

Kelly Jones #3 November 2009On Sale: November 1, 2009Featuring: Kelly Jones; Jake Riley400 pages ISBN: 0778326721EAN: 9780778326724Mass Market Paperback$7.99 Thriller Police Procedural, Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com The Gatekeeperby Michelle Gagnon We are our own worst enemy… Drugged then kidnapped, a young girl wakes up to a nightmare… From the moment sixteen-year-old Madison Grant is abducted, an unthinkable terrorist plot is set in motion— pitting Special Agent Kelly Jones against her most powerful adversary yet. The kidnapper’s ransom demands aren’t monetary…they come at a cost that no American can afford to pay. As Kelly’s fiancé, Jake Riley, races to find Madison, Kelly is assigned to another disturbing case: the murder and dismemberment of a senator. At first the two cases don’t appear to be related. But as Kelly navigates her way through the darkest communities of America—from skinheads to biker gangs to border militias—she discovers a horrible truth. A shadowy figure who calls himself The Gatekeeper is uniting hate groups, opening the door to the worst homegrown attack in American history. Ripped from the headlines, this chilling tale of hate groups in America is shocking and believable. Excerpt Madison Grant leaned over the sink, careful not to get her jeans…

December 2009On Sale: November 24, 2009Featuring: Sean Cameron; Hannah Shay384 pages ISBN: 0778326551EAN: 9780778326557Mass Market Paperback$7.99 Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Cold Riverby Carla Neggers A past she wants to forget collides with a cold-blooded murder he is determined to solve… Hannah Shay has finally shown the town of Black Falls what she’s worth. Her Three Sisters Café is a success and she’s soon to become a prosecutor. When the café becomes an epicenter for investigators trying to pierce a violent crime ring that’s leaving bloody trails in nearby Cameron Mountain, Hannah suspects a man from her past is involved. Sean Cameron returns to the snowy cold of his Vermont hometown to unmask his father’s killer. Sean has the skills and resources to mount his own search, but he must convince the resistant Hannah to cooperate—because the killer is ready to strike again…and closer than anyone ever imagined. The twists and turns awaiting them will take them closer to the explosive truth…and into the sights of a killer. Excerpt March 26—nine months ago—Black Falls, Vermont The Cameron brothers were in town that night. Hannah Shay watched them enter O’Rourke’s from her perch on a high stool at the rough-wood bar….

January 2010On Sale: January 1, 2010Featuring: Abby Whitman; Jason Coble400 pages ISBN: 044655684XEAN: 9780446556842Mass Market Paperback$6.99 Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Sleep No Moreby Susan Crandall DANGER NEVER RESTSThe night was always Abby Whitman’s enemy. As a young girl she walked in her sleep, and one night, started a fire that scarred her sister for life and left Abby with unbearable guilt, and a loneliness that echoes within her AND EVIL NEVER CLOSES ITS EYESNow Abby has begun blacking out again—with apparently fatal results. A car accident has killed the son of a prominent family. Even though the evidence seems to exonerate her, Abby is plagued by doubts—and soon by mysterious threats. A young psychiatrist, Dr. Jason Coble, is intrigued by Abby and offers to help her explore the dark recesses in her mind. Through this terrifying journey, Jason’s interest turns to passion, and he yearns to give her the love she craves. But first, Abby must trust him—and shed light on secrets that will rock this Southern town and reveal a danger that threatens them both. Excerpt Prologue The house where Abby Whitman’s family lived wasn’t like the plantation houses in the movies. There was no sweeping staircase and…

Hellions Of Halstead Hall #1 January 2010On Sale: January 19, 2010Featuring: Maria Butterfield; Oliver Sharpe384 pages ISBN: 1439167516EAN: 9781439167519Mass Market Paperback$7.99 Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com The Truth About Lord Stonevilleby Sabrina Jeffries The first novel in Sabrina Jeffries’s new Hellions of Hallstead Hall series, featuring Oliver Sharpe, the eldest of the Sharpe siblings. In the two decades since a tragic “accident” took the lives of his parents, Oliver Sharpe, the Marquess of Stoneville, has survived the scandal surrounding the fateful night by living as an unrepentant rakehell. And with his grandmother vowing to disinherit him if he doesn’t settle down and wed, he plans to fulfill the bargain n true Sharpe style–by bring home a fake fiance from a brother. But Oliver’s scheme is derailed when he rescues an American beauty in a dire predicament. Maria Butterfield came to London to track down her groom-to-be, who has gone missing. But her engagement won’t stop Oliver from getting what he wants: her, in his bed. His rebellious masquerade may call his grandmother’s bluff, but it’s soon made all too real — by a love that tempts him to be a hellion no more. Excerpt Chapter One Ealing 1825 Oliver stared…

November 2009On Sale: November 1, 2009Featuring: Roderick Cherbon; Michaela Fortune352 pages ISBN: 1420102435EAN: 9781420102437Paperback$6.99 Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com Taming the Beastby Heather Grothaus It will take more than a woman’s beauty to tame this beast… After years of turmoil, Roderick Cherbon has left the Crusades to return to the home he loves. But the wars have changed him, and the heir who thought to heal his father’s injustices has become a vicious beast of a man, scarred inside and out. He will speak to no one, see no one; he leaves the shadows of his ruined keep only under the darkness of night. And even in death his father mocks him: to retain his land and title, Roderick, the Beast, must marry. Lady Michaela Fortune is reviled for her poverty, ridiculed for her dreams, and preyed on for her soft heart. Humiliation and want dog her beloved family, and her pride is an indulgence she can ill afford. Cherbon and its shattered lord offer a solution. But to court a man who has fallen so low, Michaela will need all her grace and beauty to harbor any hopes of taming the beast… A courageous beauty falls in love with…