Lakeshore Chronicles October 2009On Sale: September 29, 2009Featuring: Eddie Haven400 pages ISBN: 0778326896EAN: 9780778326892Hardcover$21.95 Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Lakeshore Christmas by Susan Wiggs Maureen Davenport lives for Christmas—and there’s nothing more magical than Christmas on Willow Lake. The prim librarian is finally getting her chance to direct Avalon’s annual holiday pageant, and she’s determined to make it truly spectacular. But it might just require one of those Christmas miracles she’s always read about. Because her codirector is recovering former child star Eddie Haven, a long-haired, tattooed lump of coal in Maureen’s pageant stocking. Eddie can’t stand Christmas, but a court order from a judge has landed him right in the middle of the merrymaking. Maureen and Eddie spar over every detail of the pageant, from casting troubled kids to Eddie’s original – and distinctly untraditional – music. Is he trying to sabotage the performance to spite her? Or is she trying too hard to fit the show into her storybook-perfect notion of Christmas? And how is it possible that they’re falling in love? #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs conjures the heartwarming holiday tale of two people looking beyond the disappointments of the past to the promise…

November 2009On Sale: October 27, 2009Featuring: Camry MacKeage; Luke Pascal352 pages ISBN: 1416595457EAN: 9781416595458Mass Market Paperback$7.99 Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com A Highlander Christmas by Janet Chapman Camry MacKeage has absolutely no intention of telling her parents that she left her job as a NASA physicist for the small-town life of a dog-sitter — which is why she’s spending the holidays alone in coastal Maine with her furry friends Tigger and Max. Unfortunately, her irresistibly handsome rival, scientist Luke Pascal, accidentally spilled the beans. Now he’s on a mission from her mother to tempt Camry home for the family’s annual winter solstice celebration. But Luke is hiding his own secret, and he’ll need a little bit of magic to earn Camry’s trust…and a whole lot of mistletoe to seduce his way into her heart. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

September 2009On Sale: August 25, 2009Featuring: Josie Taternall400 pages ISBN: 0143116436EAN: 9780143116431Trade Size$15.00 Women’s Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Bed & Breakfast by Lois Battle Penguin is pleased to reintroduce readers to “born storyteller” (The Washington Post) and New York Times bestselling author Lois Battle and her delightful holiday tale of Josie Taternall and her South Carolina bed and breakfast. After her best friend’s narrow brush with death, Josie decides that life is too short to let old grievances stand in the way of family togetherness. This year, she resolves, her three grown daughters—the girls she raised so carefully yet with such mixed results—will come home for Christmas. With her uncanny ear for Southern sensibility and her sharp-eyed wit, Battle gives us the perfect upstairs/downstairs comedy and a portrait of a family in all its tender, touching, and flawed glory that readers young and old will cherish. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

October 2009On Sale: October 13, 2009Featuring: Teddy Winters160 pages ISBN: 1593155476EAN: 9781593155476Hardcover$14.95 Romance Buy at Amazon.com The Christmas Clock by Kat Martin Bestselling romance author Kat Martin presents a charming, inspiring holiday tale of love lost and found, and of bonds broken and healed. Teddy Winters was eight years old that Christmas, too young to understand all the undercurrents swirling around him in that tiny Michigan town of Dreyerville. He wasn’t able to value that Christmas for the miracle it truly was. Teddy only knew he wanted to buy the beautiful Victorian clock in the window of Tremont’s Antiques as a gift for his grandmother, Lottie Sparks, a woman desperate to find him a home before her rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s left him an orphan. Teddy didn’t know that in trying to buy the clock hew would meet Sylvia Winters and Joe Dixon, a coupe once in love, desperate to overcome the past. He didn’t know he would for a friendship with his neighbors, Floyd and Doris Culver, two people struggling to revive their long-dead marriage. He didn’t know that these people would fill his Christmas with magic and hope; that the ove of his friends would change his world, and…

October 2009On Sale: September 29, 2009384 pages ISBN: 0515147001EAN: 9780515147001Paperback$7.99 Romance Anthology, Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Start off the Holidays… Hot For The Holidaysby Anya Bast, Allyson James, Angela Knight, Lora Leigh Four all-new paranormal romance novellas to fire up the coldest nights… Something passionate.Something mysterious.Something sexy.And something totally inviting. Featuring four all-new novellas of sensual surprises and seasonal spirits, this collection includes a new tale of the Breeds from Lora Leigh and a return to the world of the Mageverse from Angela Knight. Vampire’s Ball by Angela KnightKat Danilo’s childhood turned tragic when her sister become the victim of a serial killer. Years later, she gets a chance at justice when she discovers she’d the daughter of Lancelot, vampire knight of the Round Table. But first, she’s got to convince a handsome vampire warrior that she’s worthy to gain the magical powers that are her birthright—powers that might help her find her sister’s killer. If the murderer doesn’t find her first…. Sweet Enchantment by Anya BastThis novella provides a first taste of the world in which Anya’s new Dark Magick series is set. A Little Night Magic by Allyson JamesThe town of Magellan is famous for its woo-woo…

Morganville Vampires #7 November 2009On Sale: November 3, 2009256 pages ISBN: 0451228669EAN: 9780451228666Mass Market Paperback$6.99 Young Adult Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Fade Out by Rachel Caine Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again… Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve’s castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realize that this film project, whose subject is the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger-and way more dangerous-than anyone suspected. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

The Immortals #3 November 2009On Sale: November 17, 2009Featuring: Damen; Ever368 pages ISBN: 031259044XEAN: 9780312590444Hardcover$17.99 Young Adult Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Shadowland by Alyson Noel She always believed he was her destiny—but what if fate has other plans? Enter the realm of the Immortals-the #1 New York Times bestselling series that-s been acclaimed as breathtaking, mesmerizing, flawless and extraordinary. Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives- and fought off the world-s darkest enemies-so they could be together forever.- But just when their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon Damen-one that could destroy everything.- Now a single touch of their hands or a soft brush of their lips could mean sudden death-plunging Damen into the Shadowland.– Desperate to break the curse and save Damen, Ever immerses herself in magick-and gets help from an unexpected source-a surfer named Jude. Although she and Jude have only just met, he feels startlingly familiar.- Despite her fierce loyalty to Damen, Ever is drawn to Jude, a green-eyed golden boy with magical talents and a mysterious past.- She-s always believed Damen to be her soulmate and one true love-and she still believes it to be true.- But as Damen…

The Elite #3 July 2009On Sale: July 7, 2009Featuring: Drew Van Allen; Casey256 pages ISBN: 0425227839EAN: 9780425227831Paperback$9.99 Young Adult Buy at Amazon.com Simply Irresistible by Jennifer Banash Small-town girl turned Big Apple beauty, Casey McCloy is really beginning to enjoy the high life in her high-rise. She’s climbing the social ladder, to the dismay of her neighbor and rival, Madison Macallister. And Casey could end up as popular as Madison now that the two are set to star in their own reality show, “De-Luxe.” But reality TV can be so unreal . . . Madison loves the attention, but having every bit of her life caught on tape is often less than glamorous. Yet fame comes at a price-and she’s willing to pay. Meanwhile, now that Casey and her almost-boyfriend Drew Van Allen are currently more off than on, she’s beginning to wonder if everything in her life is just an illusion-and how much longer the illusion can last. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

October 2009On Sale: October 15, 2009Featuring: Daiyu288 pages ISBN: 0670011789EAN: 9780670011780Hardcover$17.99 Young Adult Adventure Buy at Amazon.com Gateway by Sharon Shinn As a Chinese adoptee in St. Louis, teenage Daiyu often feels out of place. When an elderly Asian jewelry seller at a street fair shows her a black jade ring—and tells her that “black jade” translates to “Daiyu”—she buys it as a talisman of her heritage. But it’s more than that; it’s magic. It takes Daiyu through a gateway into a version of St. Louis much like 19th century China. Almost immediately she is recruited as a spy, which means hours of training in manners and niceties and sleight of hand. It also means stealing time to be with handsome Kalen, who is in on the plan. There’s only one problem. Once her task is done, she must go back to St. Louis and leave him behind forever. . . . Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

November 2009On Sale: November 12, 2009Featuring: Natalie Hargrove; Mike King; Justin Balmer248 pages ISBN: 1595142657EAN: 9781595142658Paperback$9.99 Young Adult Suspense Buy at Amazon.com The Betrayal Of Natalie Hargrove by Lauren Kate Cruel Intentions meets Macbeth in this seductive, riveting tale of conscience and consequence. A steamy Southern beauty makes one fatal mistake Natalie Hargrove would kill to be her high school’s Palmetto Princess. But her boyfriend Mike King doesn’t share her dream and risks losing the honor of Palmetto Prince to Natalie’s nemesis, Justin Balmer. So she convinces Mike to help play a prank on Justin. . . one that goes terribly wrong. They tie him to the front of the church after a party—when they arrive the next morning, Justin is dead. From blackmail to buried desire, dark secrets to darker deeds, Natalie unravels. She never should’ve messed with fate. Fate is the one thing more twisted than Natalie Hargrove. Previous Picks Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.