Fresh Pick for Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 is PURE TEMPTATION AND OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER by Vicki Lewis Thompson #RomanceWednesday Classic romance revisited The Best of Temptation Harlequin April 2014 On Sale: April 15, 2014 384 pages ISBN: 0373606273 EAN: 9780373606276 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy A Copy Amazon.com BN.com Powell’s Books Indiebound Pure Temptation and Old Enough to Know Better by Vicki Lewis Thompson In these two classic Harlequin Temptation stories being young just makes it hotter! PURE TEMPTATION Growing up in a small town with four very big brothers means Tess Blakely might as well be wearing a chastity belt. This has to change before she moves to New York. She’s read loads of books about sex, but she needs some hands-on training. And her best friend, “Mac” MacDougal, looks like the perfect teacher to set things on fire…. OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER Accepting a dare to hit on the gorgeous new landscaper is Kasey Braddock’s chance to prove she can entice a man and leave him drooling. After all, she’s old enough to know what she wants—and she wants Sam Ashton…badly. The chemistry between them is powerful, explosive.Still, she plans to…

Sons of Chance #3 August 2010 On Sale: August 1, 2010 Featuring: Josie Keller; Jack Chance 224 pages ISBN: 0373795602 EAN: 9780373795604 Mass Market Paperback $4.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Claimed! by Vicki Lewis Thompson He’s her last chance… Following a dream brought Josie Keller to Shoshone, Wyoming. Following her heart brought her plenty of great sex with good-time cowboy Jack Chance! She was head over heels for him… until he left her. Stay with one woman? Not a chance! Then why does Jack miss Josie like crazy? Had their relationship been more than just incredible sex? Little do Josie and Jack know that a plan’s afoot to get them back in the saddle…together. And once there, it’s not long before they’re burning up the bedsheets again! But the past is never far away. Before it catches up with them, Jack has to decide if he’s going to stake his claim on Josie, or lose her forever…. Excerpt Present day “Josie, there’s a drunken cowboy at the door.” Jack Chance stared at the tall guy silhouetted in the doorway of Josie’s place. His Josie. “Who the hell are you?” “That’s none of your business. Look,…

I’m absolutely thrilled to be here today! Picture me as a cocker spaniel dancing around in total excitement, tail wagging, ears flopping, big smile on my face.. But don’t picture me piddling on the floor, which sometimes happens with excited cocker spaniels. I was lucky to grow up with both dogs and cats, so if you’d asked me as a kid whether I was a dog person or a cat person, I would have said both. But now I’ve changed my mind. I still love the doggies, love their eternal optimism and undying affection and loyalty. But these days I’m drawn to cats. I heard someone describe them as living sculpture, and so they are. My all-black cat Eve seems to know exactly how to drape herself over the furniture or curl up on the bed so that she’s part of the décor. Eve’s her own person . . . um . . . her own cat. She greets me at the door when I come home . . . most of the time, if she’s not napping or otherwise engaged. She’ll sit in my lap if she feels like it, but sometimes she’d rather not. And that’s okay with…

It’s not my fault. I swear, I wasn’t the one who killed Kelly Ripa’s book club. Sure, I know it looks suspicious. In 2002 she was rockin’ along with her anti-Oprah picks, six of them, and didn’t we love it? Books with happy endings were getting on a TV talk show! Carly Phillips made it! Romance writers had a shot! More important – it was all about me – I had a shot. I figured Nerd in Shining Armor might make the grade with Kelly. Then she went on maternity leave and Reading with Ripa took a short break. But the book club message boards were still up, and no one was throwing in the towel, least of all me. Time marched on, however. My book came out the end of April, 2003, and no word from the LIVE folks indicating the book club would resume. It seems Kelly was home nursing her baby. I ask you, where were her priorities? Had no one suggested that she could nurse a baby and read a romance at the same time? In May, Kelly returned from maternity leave, and I held my breath. I held my breath for a very long time,…