June 2007
May 2007
Despite the success of her sultry Red Choo sex blog, it would take serious buzz to put Mercedes Brooks's first book of erotic fantasies on the bestseller list. And that meant agreeing to another showdown with her nemesis, the super-sexy TV pundit Sam Porter. This time, though, the on-air innuendos were just a dress rehearsal. What happened later between the sheets was actually the main event. If the tabloids got wind of their night together, Sam's career would self-destruct. But the real shocker was that even with a prime-time scandal hanging over their heads, one night was not enough!
BEYOND SEDUCTION
By Kathleen O’Reilly (Harlequin Blaze)
DON’T SCREAM
By Wendy Corsi Staub (Zebra Books)
Four Massachusetts sorority sisters make a pact following the accidental death of their sorority sister, Rachel Lorant, on her birthday; together, they swear never to speak about what they saw that night. Ten years later, the women start receiving mysterious letters alluding to Rachel's demise. When one of the four is brutally murdered on the night of her birthday, the others begin to worry what their own encroaching birthdays hold for them.
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CHAIN REACTION
by Dee Davis (HQN Books)
Artist Mia Kearney has the perfect life: A successful career, a home she loves, amazing friends...until her world explodes one hot August morning. Lone survivor
of a nuclear accident, Mia awakens in a government facility, faced with Homeland Security agent Nicholas Price, a man who wants answers she knows she doesn’t
have. Then Mia escapes, Nick has a choice to make. The CIA wants him off the case, but instinct tells him not to let Mia out of his sight. Now the web of deceit that’s woven tightly around them is about to unravel, and someone out there won’t be satisfied until someone is dead.
AN IMPROPER AFFAIR
by Anna Depalo (Silhouette Desire)
Millionaire of the Month. Business mogul Ryan Sperling prided himself on being different from his old man, a self-centered philanderer who had let the family assets dwindle. Now, as Ryan closed in on his greatest achievement— orchestrating his father's downfall—the charismatic bachelor had encountered an unforgettable woman...with inextricable ties to his family. It was unthinkable to fall for the daughter of his father's mistress. But it was impossible to walk away before he could taste her....
WILDFLOWERS
by Catherine Greenfeder (Wings e-Press)
“Trail guide to a missionary heading for Oregon, the last thing on Ryan Major’s mind is the daughter of the Reverend Wade, but once he sees the woman with the face of an angel, he is captivated. Guilty feelings aren’t the only thing Johanna harbors deep inside herself... there’s her growing attraction to the irritating and rude, Ryan. As if that isn’t enough of a problem, the Reverend Stephen Green wants Johanna to marry him, but he’s not the man she remembers. Caught between two entirely different men, Johanna will face the dangers of the wagon train’s journey, and know the despair and happiness that comes with traveling to a new land, and making new friends. But making new enemies was never part of the plan. In a story set amongst the wagon trains and journeys of days gone by, two very different people meet and fall in love, but can they forget the past to make a future? Or will the past tear them apart and cost them their very love and lives? Set against the backdrop of a new frontier, this is a story for those with a love of history, romance, and the spice of dangers unfolding.”
– Review by Angela Verdenius, Love’s Beguiling Healer
SLIGHTLY MARRIED
by Wendy Markham (Red Dress Ink)
All Tracey wants is to get hitched without a hitch—but as the calendar marches toward her late-October wedding date, suddenly she and her fiancé can't agree on anything. From where to get married (New York City or Buffalo?) to how many attendants they're going to have (she's already asked eight; he was thinking of just a best man). Meanwhile, Tracey's friends are caught up in their own dramas. There's newlywed Raphael, who just had his gay wedding; newly pregnant Kate, who is trying to adjust to impending motherhood; and Buckley, who is acting inexplicably strange. When Buckley unexpectedly breaks off his own engagement, all but leaving his fiancé at the altar, Tracey is stunned to learn that he might be in love with her. With plenty of snafus to keep them distracted, is being Slightly Married the road to happily ever after, after all?
HELL ON HEELS
by Kathleen O’Reilly, Dee Davis, and Julie Kenner (Berkley Books)
Sequel to HELL WITH THE LADIES. What's a devil to do?
Satan's desperate to retire. He needs an heir, and he's turning to the promise of his three beautiful, bold, smart, and irresistibly sexy daughters. All they have to do is prove themselves by successfully completing the tricky tasks he sets before them. Surely one of them will win the Keys to the Kingdom-of Hell! Will it be Lucia, the assassin? Jezebel, the half-demon? Or Lola, the soulstealing baby of the family? The challenge is on and one must prevail-unless they're thwarted by that powerful human emotion called love.
BAD AS SHE WANTS TO BE
By Thea Devine
One hot summer's day, everything changes for Frannie Luttrell after she rescues rich, young Marianne Nyland from drowning. An innocent small-town girl from the other side of the Bar Harbor tracks, Frannie is re-christened "Frankie" and swept into Marianne's glamorous world of wanton sensuality and expensive fun. Soon she is enjoying decadent pleasures beyond her wildest imagination with any and every guy she desires -- except for the man she really wants, the ever-aloof Dax Cordrey, who disapproves of her new, indulgent life. Offered a job as Marianne's personal assistant (aka permanent party pal) in New York City, Frankie and the insatiable Marianne hit the town on exotic nightly sexcapades, fulfilling their wildest fantasies. But when Marianne is found dead -- and Frankie is named her sole heir -- gossip flies like wildfire and a steamy sex tape featuring the Cinderella heiress suddenly appears. Deciding to make the most of her fifteen minutes of fame, Frankie acts the part of a publicity princess -- while trying to prove to Dax that she's not the scandalous vixen she's been made into. She's only as bad as she
wants to be...for the right person.
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July 2007
LOVE, SUBURBAN STYLE
by Wendy Markham (Warner, Forever)
Fed up with her moody teenage daughter, Meg Addams decides what they both need is a good dose of suburban wholesomeness. But when they leave Manhattan behind for Meg's humble blue-collar hometown, they find it crowded with wealthy strangers and upscale boutiques. Settling into a creaky fixer-upper, Meg finally spots a familiar face right next door--and it belongs to none other than Sam Rooney. The would-be love of Meg's high school life is now a single dad, her daughter's new soccer coach--and a neighborly ghost-buster whenever things go bump in the night. With three kids and an undeniable attraction between them, Meg and Sam are in for some heart-racing, wee-hour encounters that have nothing to do with spirits...but everything to do with hearts.
RING DANCER’S DESTINY
by Patt Mihailoff (Cerridwen Press)
Patt’s debut novel. She has also written a book with Kathy Quick under the name of P.K. Eden, and her third novel, BABY PAPERS, is due out in December.
August 2007
THE HEIR AND THE SPARE --- DEBUT NOVEL!
by Maya Rodale (Berkley)
All of London is raving about the newly arrived American, Emilia Highhart. She has beauty, charm, wit, and a hint of the exotic. Unfortunately, grace is decidedly not one of her virtues. Staircases, doors, even floors have proven her enemies, often leaving Emilia prostrate and mortified in a pile of muslin. Nevertheless, at her first ball, her dance card soon fills with the names of highly suitable men. But Emilia’s eyes are on just one man—the one her aunt points out as the entirely unsuitable Lord Phillip...In fact, he isn’t Lord Phillip. While Phillip, the heir, goes about spending the good family’s funds, his identical twin, Devon, the spare, must attend society functions as Lord Phillip—all because of a few blasted minutes’ age difference. Soon, both twins are vying for her. Emilia is unknowingly courted by two different men with the same
face! But only one of them is the love of her life....
MARSHALL’S GUARD
by Isabo Kelly (Cerridwen Press)
When Lieutenant Leia Ballore is sent to collect stolen cargo recovered from pirates, she never expects to meet the man of her dreams. But Detective Jake Marshall is off limits. He's been kidnapped from twentieth-century Earth, brought 3000 years into the future to a galaxy where he's considered a slave. And it's Leia's job to make sure he is returned home. Jake never imagined finding a woman like Leia Ballore, especially finding her in another galaxy far into the future. Despite the strangeness of his situation, he doesn't want to leave Leia, a woman he's come to care for deeply. Yet to stay means giving up everything he knows, ignoring his own duty and facing life in a universe where he's hunted as a slave. Is their love strong enough to overcome social taboos, distance, even time itself? And will they survive long enough to find out?
September 2007
THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE
by Barbara Gale (Silhouette Special Edition)
At one time Rafe Burnside fit right in. The single father
had been hopeful for his own future, and that of his
little boy, but now he was barely getting by. Until a
flu-stricken Dr. Maggie Tremont drove into town.
She needed help—in the last place and from the last
people she was likely to get it.... Rafe knew that getting attached to the lovely Maggie was dangerous—she was only passing through. But in Maggie, Rafe could see a ray of light that hadn't been there before. And what was that
unfamiliar sound...could it be the chain loosening
around his heart?
DESTINY'S SEDUCTION
Isabo Kelly (Cerridwen Press)
Arlana Von Fordin knew when she met Lord Commander Oric of Browan that he would help unearth the mystery behind her birth — a birth foretold in prophecy. But the feelings Oric unlocks in her force Arlana to confront her heart and face a dream that could cost her soul. Oric hates the hand fate has dealt him. Forced into the role of First Protector to the prophesized one, he must give up any hope of leading a normal life. But when he meets Arlana, he realizes she will control more than his life. She'll control his heart. Together Arlana and Oric face a treacherous journey through Browan where they must fix a magical experiment gone wrong before time itself is torn apart...and everything they know is lost forever.
THIEF'S DESIRE
By Isabo Kelly (Cerridwen Press)
Vic Flash, street thief and gambler, thought working as a spy for a King's Own would be a simple way to earn some money while hiding from the leader of a rival street gang. Even if she did have to worry about being seduced by the sexy general. General Jacob Marin thought hiring the little thief to work as a spy would not only be a good way to get answers to the mysteries converging on his city but a good excuse to keep Vic close. Close enough to seduce. Neither anticipated the danger that would descend with each new discovery. Blood magicians, goblins, smugglers and a mysterious evil lurking in the background launch Vic and Jacob on a deadly quest to save a child of prophesy, a journey that will test the bonds of their newfound trust and love. Failure could mean disaster for the future of the world.
LILY DALE: AWAKENING
by Wendy Corsi Staub, (Walker Books - YA)
This is Wendy’s first YA novel in years. Book one, AWAKENING, is the first title in a paranormal series. The heroine, Calla, has just lost her mom and is sent to live with her estranged grandmother in a quirky lakeside town. What she doesn't know is that the town is populated by psychic mediums, including her grandmother—and maybe even Calla herself. As she tunes in with the Other Side and comes to terms with her loss, Calla begins to sense that her mother's death might not have been an accident.
MILLIONAIRE’S WEDDING REVENGE
By Anna Depalo (Harlequin Blaze)
The Miami millionaire could have any woman—but Stephen Garrison intended to have newly returned Megan Simmons. She'd ended their sizzling affair years ago… leaving without explanation…leaving Stephen determined to seek his revenge.
But his plan to seduce his ex-lover was met with an unexpected discovery: she'd had his child. And now it was no longer enough to seduce Megan back into his bed. Stephen had decided marriage would be the ultimate payback.
October 2007
COLD CASE, HOT BODIES
By Jule McBride (Harlequin Blaze)
Charming old building in Manhattan's historical 'Five Points' District. Former brothel complete with unsolved murder mystery and legend of missing jewels. Currently belongs to the Donato family, although ownership is being contested by Cassidy Case (who needs those jewels really, really badly). For more information, contact gorgeous top cop Dario Donato, who is babysitting the building due to tenant reports of supernatural activity....
Call for a viewing today! Be warned, though—ever since their unintentional sex romp, Dario and Cassidy haven't come up for air. Maybe they'll come to some kind of 'arrangement.' And yes, sex is likely involved!
