December Releases

Henriette Gyland UP CLOSE

Choc Lit

Paperback

£7.99

7^th December 2012

Too close for comfort…

When Dr Lia Thompson’s grandmother dies unexpectedly, Lia is horrified to have to leave her life in America and return to a cold and creaky house in Norfolk. But as events unfold, she can’t feeling that there is more to her grandmother’s death than meets the eye.

Aidan Morrell is surprised to see Lia, his teenage crush, back in town. But Aidan’s accident when serving in the navy has scarred him in more ways than one, and he has other secrets which must stay hidden at all costs, even from Lia.

As Lia comes closer to uncovering the truth, she is forced to question everything she thought she knew. In a world of increasing danger, is Aidan someone she can trust?

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Lindsay Townsend  TWELVE KISSES

Muse it Up Publishing

Ebook

December 14th

$2.00

She has twelve days to win his heart.

He has twelve nights and twelve kisses to prove his love.

  

Website: http://www.lindsaytownsend.net/

Lynne Connolly, BORN ON THE BAYOU

Ellora's Cave

ebook <<...>>

7th December 2012

$7.50

When Jace Beauchene, guitarist for Murder City Ravens, goes home to confront his unhappy childhood, he finds instead the sexiest woman in the world. Seeing the broken-down old plantation house all gussied up and new makes him realize he can’t go back, and Beverley Christmas makes him want more for his future. She lights up his nights, dazzles his days, makes him want more than he has a right to. But he’ll take it.

Beverley didn’t realize men like Jace existed. Rampantly, unashamedly sexy, he shows her how to live, how to open up to new experiences. She’s spent most of her life learning her trade in the great kitchens of the world; now Jace shows her what bedrooms are for. And every other room in the house. But their paths lie in different directions. Unless they can find a way to combine what they both want, their red-hot affair will leave them both burned.

 http://www.jasminejade.com/p-10538-born-on-the-bayou.aspx

Margaret Mounsdon, SECOND TIME AROUND

Thorpe

1 December 2012

£8.99

Widowed Elise Trent is forced to re-think her life when her mother in law accepts a marriage proposal, her daughter gets involved in an action group and she is implicated in a spate of country house burglaries.

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Freda Lightfoot, THE DUCHESS OF DRURY LANE

Severn House

Hardback

29 November

£19.99 recommended price.

Passion, jealousy, scandal and betrayal - a true-life Regency Romance of the rise and fall of an extraordinary woman born into extraordinary times. Growing up in a poverty-stricken, fatherless household, Dorothy Jordan overcame her humble beginnings to become the most famous comic actress of her day. It was while performing on Drury Lane that Dorothy caught the eye of the Duke of Clarence, later to become King William IV. Her twenty-year relationship with the Duke was one of great happiness and domesticity, producing ten children. But ultimately, Dorothy's generous nature was her undoing and she was to be cruelly betrayed by the man she loved.

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Sally Quilford A CHRISTMAS MOON

Siren Bookstrand
ebook
12th December 2012
When Evie Price’s brother goes missing for years, she sets off on a journey to Eastern Europe to find him. Engaging the help of Professor Raphael, Evie must try to undo an age old curse. Along the way she learns about a supernatural life that she never knew existed. Can she and Raphael shed light on the dark? Or will the darkness destroy them both?

http://quillersplace.wordpress.com/ 

Wendy Soliman THE FORSTERS Book 1/ Compromising the Marquess

Carina Press

E-book

10^th December 2012

$5.99

Leah Elliot sells society gossip to a London scandal sheet. When she spreads rumours about Hal Forster, the Marquess of Denby, he’s almost forced into an unsuitable marriage by default. To make amends, Leah offers to pose as his paramour, with life-threatening consequences…

 www.wendysoliman.com

Vanessa Devereaux VANILLA FREE CHRISTMAS 

Evernight Publishing
ebook
3rd December

This Christmas, the best gifts are waiting for those who have been naughty…And the toys under the tree are not for children. Sexy Santas, naughty elves, and dominant shifters are ready to spread some very kinky Christmas cheer. It's a good thing the ladies in our stories are looking for anything but vanilla.

www.vanessadevereaux.com

Vanessa Devereaux NAUGHTY NOELLE
Evernight Publishing
ebook
14th December
$2.99
While heading home on Christmas Eve, CEO Shaun Cullen notices that the lights on the main floor are still on and decides to turn them off. There he finds a slip of red paper and upon reading it learns it’s a dirty letter to Santa and signed by someone called Naughty Noelle. He discovers she’s the alter ego of employee Ellen Nelson, and the letter is not only her confession about everything bad she's done at work, but also her lust for him. Will he fire her or will he visit her dressed as Santa and hand out some of his own form of punishment?
www.vanessadevereaux.com

Candlelit Christmas by Elizabeth Beacon

“So what sort of plot are you looking for?’ I asked my editor in October 2011 when the call came to write a Christmas Regency for Mills and Boon.

“Oh, we’ll leave that to you.”

Which should be music to a writer’s ears, but with all the great Regency Christmas books and stories that had gone before, it seemed to me that some very choppy waters lay ahead of me as I sat there wondering what on earth to do.

First step had to be investigate a Regency Christmas. Right; strip out tinsel, Christmas trees, jolly, fat Santa. Subtract Christmas cards, crackers and a huge Christmas dinner. Carols? So Victorian darling! Twelfth Night more important to Regency revellers than Christmas Day? Oh, surely not?

Left with Christmas-lite, I only needed to write, pass over for editing, revise and proof read a book by the end of March. It felt a bit like trying to reassemble the turkey from the wishbone up. Most historic houses were shut for winter by then and none seemed quite right anyway, so I went for a walk with the dog and saw the local manor house, built on the side of a hill and miles from the nearest village. Tweaked and set back in time, Hearstease Hall now awaited as much Christmas cheer as I could get away with.

Being snowed in the Christmas before last helped, but I needed a hero – needed one then as well, but no disgruntled, passionate and sexy hero stumped in when I was snowbound. A romance couldn’t develop fully in the time it takes a southern whiteout to melt, so my hero and heroine had a past and suddenly the story sprang into life. A few hours off from winter to salt the story with the heroine’s midsummer memories and by Christmas the hero and heroine were finally cooking with gas. The result was published this November as Governess Under the Mistletoe and Linda Sole, writing as Anne Herries, is the author of the other half of Candlelit Christmas Kisses.

Although Linda and I had no contact whilst writing our respective books, somehow we both produced heroines who lost everything then had to work for a living. Our heroines also rejoice in very dark hair – which could come as a shock to our readers, as the cover shows a blonde beauty, clearly very happy to be swept off her feet by those Christmas kisses.

Would I do it again? I’m not sure it could work twice and my editor may be regretting that conversation even as I write. It made me think very hard about Christmas and what it means, even while stamping about doing a Scrooge, complaining about the whole rigmarole and panicking about that rigid deadline.

If anyone else gets the call, I wish you the best of luck and understanding friends and lovers. I’m glad I did it, and equally glad I haven’t got to do it again this year!

Available from:

 Mills & Boon

Amazon