Tuesday, April 3, 2012

April Releases

Adele Parks ABOUT LAST NIGHT
Headline Review
12th April
£6.99
'I need you to say that I was with you.' For thirty years, best friends Steph and Pip have been through thick and thin. There's nothing they would not do for one another. Until these simple words change everything. Steph, eternally solid and dependable, is begging her friend to lie to the police as she's desperately trying to conceal not one but two scandalous secrets to protect her family. Pip, self-consigned to the role of scatty hot-head, is overwhelmed;she's normally the one asking for help in a crisis. It's a big ask. So what would you do? How far would you go for your best friend?


Alison Sherlock THE DESPERATE BRIDE'S DIET CLUB
Random House on 26th April 2012
£6.99
Violet Saunders is astounded when her boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes. At size 18-20, she can't think why anyone would want to marry her and euphoria quickly turns to horror as she contemplates squeezing herself into a wedding dress. When a leaflet from dieting club New You! drops through her letterbox, she hurries to enrol, but is soon traumatised by the terrifying Trudie, who secretly despises her fat clients. Things go from bad to worse; everyone just gets fatter on the horrible New You! drink shakes. At work, Violet's half-Italian boss looks on in amazement and finally persuades her to take a break and lunch with him at his family's delicatessen. All at once Violet experiences an explosion of beautiful tastes and textures. Inspired, she persuades her fellow dieters to form a new club, with secret weigh-ins at her house - while pretending to Trudie, of whom they are all petrified, that it is the New You! diet which is transforming them. Fabulous Italian recipes gradually begin to work their magic, but can Violet the duckling really become Violet the swan in time for her wedding?

Electra Shepherd LOVE MACHINE
Ellora's Cave
ebook
4 April 2012
US$4.45 (appx £3.00)
If you’ve got a six-foot hunky robot offering to relieve your sexual frustration, you’re not going to say no, right? Even if he is sort of…well, definitely…blue?














Toni Sands TRADED INNOCENCE
Xcite Books Ltd
16 April 2012
£5.91 Paperback - 3 novellas
Early 19th century well-born Rebecca, desperate to escape marrying a tyrant, tumbles from the sand dunes to land at smuggler Jac’s feet. Danger awaits him as he helps plot her escape. Jac also has to fight his own conscience as secret meetings with her bad boy transform Rebecca’s girlish innocence into a woman’s passion.

Annie Burrows CAPTAIN CORCORANS'S HOYDEN BRIDE
Harlequin Historical
Miss Aimee Peters craves respectability after a life spent dodging scandal.  Captain Corcoran wants a wife by any means.  But neither of them is ready to trust a member of the opposite sex.
















Noelene Jenkinson BARRATT'S RUN
Whiskey Creek Press

$5.99
April 2012

Anne Gray is forced to marry for the chance of a better life. Until she learns that her cruel husband murdered his first wife and now threatens her, so she flees Devon and escapes to Australia.
James Barratt emigrated from Sussex to Australia to make his fortune. After his fiance jilts him, he takes a mistress, vowing never to fall in love again. But she convinces him to try again.

In Australia, Anne changes her name and answers James' advertisement for a wife. But her blossoming romance and marriage is shortlived when her past returns to haunt her and, once again, she is forced to flee. Pregnant and homeless, Anne struggles to resolve her future until James finds her and the real truth is uncovered. http://www.noelenejenkinson.com 














Vanessa Devereaux TAKE A CHANCE ON ME (Perfect Pairing Series)
Evernight Publishing
E Novella
April 12th
Thanks to a witch named Sadie, who's been sent to the Department of Love for punishment, two lonely souls who never thought they'd find their dream partner, meet through her Perfect Pairing service.













Nell Dixon EASTER HOLIDAY
Astraea Press 
£1.95
Cornish farmer, Noah Penwarren is sworn off city girls, especially deceitful ones. Posy Carmichael is a city girl through and through. When romantic sparks start to fly will Posy’s secret end their Easter romance before it’s even begun?



Kate Johnson RUN RABBIT RUN
Choc Lit Publishing 
7th April 2012
Paperback £7.99 ebook £1.99
Sophie's in trouble. Must be a Tuesday. Book five of the Sophie Green mysteries.
































Anna Jacobs THE TRADER'S SISTER
Hodder & Stoughton
£19.99
Ismay Deagan has one wish, to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. But her father orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn. After Rory brutally attacks her, Ismay runs away. After meeting Adam Tregear on the ship, she finally starts to believe her dreams of future happiness may come true.
On the way, however, she’s flung into adventures in Suez, Ceylon and Singapore. Dare she tell Adam the truth about who she really is? Does he have secrets of his own? Or will her past catch up with her and ruin her new-found happiness?


Chrissie Loveday TIES THAT BIND
Chivers
Large Print hardback
“Sophie’s dream is to be a fashion designer and the dynamic Adam is determined to make it happen. But dare she love this man with a reputation and can she overcome the conflicts always in her way? Why does the glamorous Rachel figure in their lives?”














Chrissie Loveday TO LOVE AGAIN
Peoples’ Friend Pocket Novel
April 5th 2012
£1.99
The fourth story in the saga if the Vale family. Lizzie is the youngest daughter, facing the traumas of WW2 ending in her role as a nurse. Working with physically and mentally injured men, she finds life tough until Daniel begins to fill her life. Can their love possibly conquer the obstacles?

Liz Fielding Beaumont Brides Collection - Wild Justice, Wild Lady and Wild Fire in one volume
Available to buy or borrow on Kindle, from Amazon  $4.99
















Victoria Connelly MR DARCY FOREVER
Sourcebooks
1st April
$14.99
Two estranged sisters meet again at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath but what tore them apart and can the magic of Jane Austen help to bring them back together again?







Victoria Connelly THE RUNAWAY ACTRESS
HarperCollins
12th April
£6.99
A romantic comedy about a movie star who swaps Hollywood for the Highlands in an attempt to find out who she really is.












Lucy Felthouse THE SECRET LIBRARY – SILK STOCKINGS
Xcite Books Ltd
16 April 2012
£5.91 Paperback - 3 novellas

















JL Merrow CAMWOLF
Samhain Publishing
3rd April 2012
Paperback
$15.00  discounted to $10.50 for limited time only.
Dr. Nick Sewell. Cambridge fellow. Werewolf. Struggling with his feral nature and with a visceral attraction to Julian Lauder, a troubled young German student—until a strange wolf is seen around college, and Julian disappears.











Lindsay Townsend THE LORD AND ELEANOR
Ellora's Cave Blush Line
Historical Romance Novella(15000 words)
ELLORA'S CAVE BLUSH LINE
April 19TH
$2.49
Their love breaks all bounds. Richard is lord of Wykeford—and Eleanor’s lord. She is a former bondswoman, now free. When they meet, their lives change forever as a love that cannot be denied flames between them. She is strong and fierce. He is a gentle warrior. Together, they fight for their future against all odds.
But there is one in the lord’s household who is not pleased and who will stop at nothing to break Richard and Eleanor apart, even at the cost of murder.
http://www.lindsaytownsend.net 











Kate Jackson MICHAELMAS JOLLY AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING RING
The People's Friend Fiction Special No 58
£2.50
Sherlock Holmes has Watson. Victorian boy detective, Michaelmas Jolly, meets his own partner while solving the mysterious case of the missing ring.

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