Sunday, July 31, 2011

August New Releases

Lynne Connolly
SHIFTING HEAT
Ellora’s Cave
17th August 2011
$8.90 or $4.45, depending where you buy it. Ebook

Andros is a powerful shape-shifting dragon. Meeting Faye when they’re sharing the same air space is a bit of a shock they quickly overcome in a convenient hotel room. Together they must hunt down a mutual enemy, but to defeat him they have to come to terms with what they are.


Lindsay Townsend
PALACE OF THE FOUNTAINS
Bookstrand
August 9th 2011
Ebook $4.49

Answering a plea for help, Caro leaves a draining relationship and returns to Spain to be reunited with her half-sister Sancha. There, designing a garden for Don Silvino’s palace, she meets the charismatic Joe Spenser. He courts Caro and she is wildly attracted to him, but can she trust him?

Gillian Stewart writing as Gillian Villiers
AS TIME GOES BY
ISBN – N/A
D C Thomso
11 August 2011
£1.99, People’s Friend Pocket Novel

Choosing between life on a croft in northern Scotland or a sensible job in the city isn’t easy for Lally – or others.

Gillian Stewart writing as Gillian Villiers
A PROMISE FOR TOMORROW
ISBN – 978-1-4448-0771-4
F A Thorpe (Linford Romance Library)
August 2011
£8.99

When Hope has to close her beloved shop, she reluctantly accepts her godmother's suggestion and returns to her family's roots in southern Scotland. Could this be the beginning of a new life?

Elizabeth Chadwick
TO DEFY A KING
ISBN 978 0 7515 4133 5
Sphere
August 18th
£6.99 or less paperback.
Also available on Kindle and e-book formats
Winner of the RNA Historical Novel Prize 2011

A 13th century tale of passion, power and politics on the road to Magna Carta, featuring Mahelt, the vibrant eldest daughter of the great William Marshal, and her relationship with Hugh Bigod, heir to the earldom of Norfolk.

Jan Jones
AN ORDINARY GIFT: (four part serial)
Woman's Weekly (magazine)
Weekly instalments in shops from last week in July
Each issue 87p

Scholar Clare Somerset moves to the ancient cathedral town of Ely and immediately starts seeing - and hearing - things that don't exist.

Benita Brown writing as Clare Benedict
A DARK LEGACY
ISBN 0750534354
Magna Large Print
£20.99

Love can be a dangerous game!
Before Bethany Lyall can follow her heart, she must conquer the demons from her past and face the dangers in the present. Of the three men in her life, only she can decide who is her friend, who her enemy and who would be her lover!

Shirley Wells
DEAD SILENT
9781426892103
Carina Press
August 22, 2011
£4.29 ebook (audio also available)

Ten months ago, Samantha Hunt set off for work…and was never seen again.
Dylan Scott wants to believe the young woman's alive, but not everything is as it seems in sleepy Dawson's Clough. Who wanted to silence Sam, and why? The truth turns out to be worse than anyone expected…

Louise Allen
RAVISHED BY THE RAKE
978-0263887921
Mills & Boon
August 2011
Paperback £3.99. Kindle £2.65

Danger & desire trilogy 1. A merchantman sails from India with passengers whose lives will be shattered on the reefs of the Scillies. Lady Perdita Brooke makes light of scandal; her sharp wit finds a worthy opponent in Lord Alistair Lyndon until one night of terror reveals a devastating secret.
Read extract: http://tinyurl.com/3swyxxp

Louise Allen
AUCTIONED VIRGIN TO SEDUCED BRIDE
Publisher Harlequin Mills & Boon
August 2011
Kindle (novella) £1.59

A companion to The Transformation of the Shelley Sisters trilogy. Just what was respectable enquiry agent Patrick Jago doing in one of London’s most notorious brothels? And what – aside from the obvious motive – makes him bid for the virtue of Laurel Vernon?
Read extract: http://tinyurl.com/4xrfn2z

Louise Allen
PRACTICAL WIDOW TO PASSIONATE MISTRESS
978-0373296521 (North American edition. UK edition published 2010)
Harlequin
August 2011
$6.25; Kindle £2.65

The Transformation of the Shelley Sisters trilogy 1. Ruined and adrift in France at the end of the Peninsula war Meg’s only hope was to cast herself on the protection of scarred, bitter Ross Brandon. Can two wounded souls ever find peace – or even, love? “Addictive read.” Romantic Times
Read extract:  http://tinyurl.com/4xv6q7f

Freda Lightfoot
THE RELUCTANT QUEEN
978-1847512826
Severn House
£10.79 paperback
Kindle edition: £5.74

The story of Marguerite de Valois begun in Hostage Queen continues with devastating results. Gabrielle d’Estrées longs for a happy marriage, but is the love of a king enough to secure her the happiness and respectability she craves, and a crown for her son as the next dauphin of France?

Anna Jacobs
CHERRY TREE LANE (#1 in The Wiltshire Girls)
ISBN 978-0749009076
Allison & Busby
15 August, 2011
£7.99 Paperback

With her stepfather threatening her with a forced marriage, Mattie Willitt flees home in search of a better life. Her life is saved by Jacob, a widower who takes her in and nurses her back to health. The pair soon grow close but when Mattie's stepfather discovers her whereabouts, danger once again threatens.
Read an extract: http://www.annajacobs.com/excerpts/cherry_tree_lane_chapter_1.pdf

Anna Jacobs
ELM TREE ROAD (#2 of The Wiltshire Girls)
ISBN 978-0749009977
Allison and Busby
29 August, 2011
£19.99 Hardback

Nell and her two sisters flee from their bullying stepfather. Nell is pregnant to the man she loves, who has agreed to marry her. But losing his good job sours Cliff and the marriage is unhappy. Then tragedy strikes. Will Nell find true happiness or will danger from the past cast a dark shadow?
Read an extract: http://www.annajacobs.com/excerpts/elm_tree_chapter1.pdf

Catherine Jones writing as Kate Lace
GYPSY WEDDING
978-0-099-56453-9
Arrow Books
4 August 2011
£5.99 Paperback

Vicky is seventeen and it's high time to be thinking of getting married and settling down. The trouble is, getting wed, isn't her only ambition.

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