Tuesday, March 1, 2011

March Releases


Christina Courtenay THE SCARLET KIMONO
Choc Lit 
1st March 2011
7.99 or less. Also available in various e-book formats.
Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17th-century Japan – what happens when fear turns to love?













Elizabeth Chadwick TO DEFY A KING
Sourcebooks (USA)
1st March 2011
14.99 or less. Also available in various e-book formats.
 Set in the early 13th century; Mahelt, eldest daughter of the great William Marshal struggles to deal with her arranged marriage as King John turns upon her family.

UK version shortlisted for the RNA main award and
Best Historical Award.

Details including extract here: http://www.elizabethchadwick.com/Books/tdak.html





Anna Jacobs  DESTINY’S PATH
Hodder & Stoughton
Hardback 19.99
The twins are torn. One wants to travel, the other to stay in the colony. But travel isn’t easy for a woman alone, and it’s a long journey via Gall, Suez, Alexandria before the Suez Canal.
Book 3 of The Swan River Saga, 1860s.











Severn House
Paperback 11.99
 When Meriel emigrates to Australia, she gets a sudden chance to make her childhood dreams come true, she finds herself also tangled in Ben’s dreams - and his problems too, but she’s a very determined woman.













Dilly Court A MOTHER'S SECRET
Arrow
3 March 2011
Paperback £5.99
Belinda's passonate love affair with a handsome Anglo-Indian
army officer ends in tragedy when he is killed in action on the
North West Frontier.


Fenella Miller A CORNISH MAID
Aurora Regency Aspen Mountain Press
March 3rd 2011
ebook
$2.99
A Regency romance set in Cornwall.







Sophie Page TO MARRY A PRINCE
Arrow
31st March 2011
Paperback £5.99
 Ordinary girl Bella falls in love with heir to the British
throne, but this is not Britain as we know it.












Jo Beverley AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS
Penguin/NAL New York
March 1st
6.99 print, 4.69 Kindle.
A Prudence who isn't prudent, and a Cate who isn't at all
effeminate end up in an unlikely marriage in 18th century England.












Julie Cohen GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Headline Review
17 March 2011
Paperback £6.99
 Stunt woman Liza Haven returns to the small village she couldn't wait to escape, only to find that her perfect identical twin sister Lee has disappeared...and the whole village thinks that Liza is Lee.











June Francis IT HAD TO BE YOU
Allison & Busby
Hardback £19.99
1952. Following her grandfather's sudden death, orphan Emma Booth thinks she’s alone in the world, but then discovers she has a half-sister in Liverpool.












Orion
March 17
Hardback £9.99

Secret Shoppers Sandie, Emily and Grazia thought they'd be friends forever, but they reckoned without the dividing effects of men and money...










Lynne Connolly GRIFFIN'S TREASURE
Loose-Id llc
8th March 2011
$5.99
A British soccer star is also a griffin - can San Francisco cop Chana reveal her deepest secrets to him?

Extract:









Lynne Connolly MAIDEN LANE (Richard and Rose book 7)
Samhain Publishing
15th March 2011
$5.50
 Life is cheap-so is death

Extract:

Publisher page:







Mary Nichols SIR ASHLEY'S METTLESOME MATCH
Mills and Boon
Hardback £13.99
March 2011
Determined to bring a notorious smuggling operation to justice,
Sir Ashley Saunders clashes with feisty Pippa Kingslake who seems
to know more about them than she will admit.
(No 4 in the Piccadilly Gentleman's Club series)










Portia Da Costa FAR FROM PERFECT
Samhain Publishing
1st March 2011
$4.50/£2.62
Enduring passion, turbulent emotions, and an engagement of convenience… Sparks fly when Anna and Nick are reunited four years after they first slept together.



Sally Clements BOUND TO LOVE
Embrace Books launch title
14/2/2011
ebook
Security expert Jake Forrester must accept the help of impulsive, spirited goldsmith Tempest MacKenzie when they find themselves kidnapped together, despite his misgivings! 








Sylvia Broady THE YEARNING HEART
Robert Hale
Hardback £18.99

A mother’s quest to be reunited with her twins who were
separated at birth. Will Frances succeed?












Talli Roland  THE HATING GAME
Prospera Publishing
9th March 2011
Paperback £7.99
 For Mattie Johns, reality TV just got a little too real.












Wendy Soliman OF DUKES AND DECEPTIONS
Carina Press
14th March 2011
$4.49
 Regency romp in which a haughty duke more than meets his
match in a humble poor relation.











Large Print and Audio

Beth Elliott APRIL AND MAY
Ulverscroft
£16:99
 In Constantinople, 1804, Rose Charteris is forced to work on a secret plan for the Sultan with Tom Hawkesleigh, who broke her heart four years earlier.












Chrissie Loveday WHERE THE HEART IS
Ulverscroft
March 1st
£8.99 
Wealthy Lissa takes a housekeeper's job to prove to her father that she can do it but her boss, the gorgeous Dom sees her other talents.












Gwen Kirkwood HEART OF THE HOME
Audio book produced by Soundings
Read by Lesley Mackie
 Avril Gray sacrifices a good career to keep her promise and care for her young brothers, but she is afraid no man will want to share such responsibility.
Third in the "Home" series -(1940 to 1967)


Margaret Mounsdon HOLD ME CLOSE
Thorpe Large Print
1 March 2011
£8.00
Resting actress Sara Armitage is offered the job of looking after her old flame Lyle Jackson’s young daughter. Sparks fly from the off.



Kate Walker THE PROUD WIFE
Harlequin Mills & Boon Modern Romance
March 4th
£3.30
He says he wants his freedom - he's summoned her to Sicily for just that reason. But with his wife standing before him, about to sign on the dotted line of their divorce papers, Pietro wonders why he ever let her go.













Novellas

Kate Jackson  SECOND CHANCE
A People's Friend Pocket Novel No 674
10 March 2011
£1.80

When Laura returns to Orkney to visit her beloved grandmother
she finds that memories can still break your heart.


Short Stories

Janet Gover ON THE ROAD EAST
Short Story:
100 Stories for Queensland : a charity anthology to raise money
for flood victims.
March 8th
Price : t.b.c.
The road east leads to bright lights and adventure... but is it the best road to take?



Susannah Jacobs  A WEEKEND IN PARIS
Short story
People's Friend Fiction Special
17th Feb - 9th March
£1.99
 Paris, the city of romance, works its magic and gives Susanna  a chance to find love again.

Elspeth Hart THE ICING ON THE CAKE
Short story
People's Friend Fiction Special
17th Feb - 9th March
£1.99
There are cakes for all reasons while a family waits for  the birth of a baby. 

Elspeth Hart BACK TO NATURE
Short story
People's Friend Fiction Special
17th Feb - 9th March
£1.99
Sam uses his passion for nature to help his father.


Non-fiction


Anna Jacobs PLOTTING AND EDITING - polishing tips for writers, revised edition
ebook-First UK edition at Amazon Kindle

With over 50 novels published, Anna Jacobs has a lot of ideas
to share with other writers.

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