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Saturday, September 1, 2012

September Releases


Liz Harris THE ROAD BACK
Choc Lit
Paperback
7.99
7th September, 2012
When Patricia accompanies her father, Major George Carstairs, on a trip to Ladakh, north of the Himalayas, in the early 1960s, she sees it as a chance to finally win his love. What she could never have foreseen is meeting Kalden - a local man destined by circumstances beyond his control to be a monk, but fated to be the love of her life. Despite her father's fury, the lovers are determined to stay together, but can their forbidden love survive?









Rowan Coleman DEAREST ROSE
Arrow
27 Sep 2012
£5.99
 'You are a remarkable woman and you deserve all the happiness, contentment and love in the world. I, for one, know that I have never met anyone quite like you.'
When Rose Pritchard turns up on the doorstep of a Cumbrian B&B it is her last resort. She and her seven-year-old daughter Maddie have left everything behind. And they have come to the village of Millthwaite in search of the person who once offered Rose hope.
Almost immediately Rose wonders if she's made a terrible mistake - if she's chasing a dream - but she knows in her heart that she cannot go back. She's been given a second chance - at life, and love - but will she have the courage to take it?




Amanda Grange DEAR MR DARCY
Penguin
Paperback
6th September 2012
In this imaginative retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Amanda Grange now tells the classic story through the eyes of its compelling romantic hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy, in a series of revealing letters covering the life-changing events that defined him—from the death of his father, to his control of his Derbyshire estate of Pemberley to his conflicted courtship with the lively, intelligent, and delightfully willful Elizabeth Bennet. Try as he may, he cannot deny his attraction to this woman with fine eyes, a playful spirit, a mind of her own… and an embarrassing family that is frankly, and utterly, beneath him. But it is Elizabeth who controls both their destinies, and whose surprises will change Darcy’s life yet again.





Scarlet Wilson A BOND BETWEEN STRANGERS
Mills and Boon
Paperback
£5.49
7 September 2012
Yesterday John Carter and Lily Grayson were strangers.  Now, following an IVF mix up, their genes are bound together forever - only someone else is carrying their child!  John's only thought is to get his baby back...until he realises that Lily is the person he truly needs to complete his life.







Jane Jackson DANGEROUS WATERS
Accent Press
ebook
Free until Sept 5th then £1.97
Sept 1st
No longer welcome in her uncle's home, twenty-year-old Phoebe Dymond, a trained herbalist and midwife, boards the packet ship Providence bound for Jamaica and a forced marriage. Incidents on board provoke clashes between Phoebe and ship's doctor, Jowan Crossley. But professional antagonism turns to mutual respect and a deepening attraction neither dare acknowledge.  Following a skirmish with a French privateer they eventually arrive in Kingston to find the town in the grip of a slave revolt.  Terrifying events on the plantation of which she will be mistress force Phoebe to relinquish all hope of the happiness she has glimpsed. But fate has one more trick to play.


Jane Jackson A PLACE OF BIRDS
Accent Press
ebook
£1.97
Sept 1st
Nineteen-year-old Susanna Elliot rebels against her strict Quaker background which alienates her from her family and community. Rejected by the doctor she admires and refused permission to take her dead brother's place in the family business, she flees to join her two cousins on their mission to China. All three leave Falmouth for Shanghai aboard a schooner owned by Lowell Hawke.  
Hawke’s daring exploits have made him a legend along the China coast and Susanna finds herself involved in terrible danger – and love...







Noelene Jenkinson WOMBAT CREEK
Linford large print romance
£8.99
1 September 2012
*Wombat Creek, Australia*
The heart of the lush pastoral country and stud merino sheep flocks in Western Victoria.
The story of two people’s longing to learn from the past and create a better future for themselves, together.
*Ethan Bourke* owns /Karingal Park/ sheep station, fighting personal demons, torn between a long term comfortable relationship and his instant attraction for a radical newcomer to the district.
Single mother *SUMMER DALTON* inherits the small 100 acre farmlet, /Greenbanks/, and arrives in the Western District to investigate the viability of settling on her grandfather’s property. The daughter of hippy parents banished for their free-loving morals decades before, the scandal of her family’s past lingers in people’s memories.
Initially prejudiced, Ethan offers to buy Summer out. Planning to stay, she rejects his bid, hoping to succeed and become part of the local community. Can they resolve their attraction against the odds of a jealous old flame and Ethan’s snobbish disapproving mother who throws down the ultimate vindictive challenge?

Margaret Mounsdon  MY SECRET LOVE
Thorpe
Large Print paperback
ISBN 978 1444812541
£8.99
Tamara Cameron receives the shock of her life when Phyllis Morton appears on her doorstep. She is the great aunt of Adam Penrose, a man whose marriage proposal Tamara turned down years earlier before she became a super model










Sylvia Broady THE YEARNING HEART
Magna Large Print
Hard Cover
Family Saga
£20.99
August 2012
It is war-time Britain and seduced by her brother-in-law, Frances, 16, becomes pregnant and is banished to a lonely farm.
She gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl, whom her mother heartlessly wrenches from her.
And when told her baby daughter has died, Frances is overcome with grief.
After years of loneliness, Frances is reunited  with her son, Michael, and yearns to tell him the truth of his birth.
Michael however, has grown up believing Frances’s sister is his mother. She has taken him to live in Australia along with her new husband.
Could Frances shatter her son’s joy?



June Francis MAN BEHIND THE FACADE
Mills & Boon Historical
Paperback - 7th September £4.67
ebook - 1st September £3.99
As a renowned ravelling player - with a dangerous sideline career in political intrigue - no one understands better than Philip Hurst the masks that people wear.
But the effort it takse to school his reactions to Rebecca Clifton tests even his theatrical expertise as he is drawn into the tangled web of her family affairs.










Jane Odiwe SEARCHING FOR CAPTAIN WENTWORTH
Paintbox Publishing
£9.99
7th September 2012
When aspiring writer, Sophie Elliot receives the keys to the family townhouse in Bath, it's an invitation she can't turn down, especially when she learns that she will be living next door to the house Jane Austen lived in. On discovering that an ancient glove belonging to her mysterious neighbour, Josh Strafford, will transport her back in time to Regency Bath, she questions her sanity, but Sophie is soon caught up in two dimensions, each reality as certain as the other. Torn between her life in the modern world and that of her ancestor Sophie's story travels two hundred years across time, and back again, to unite this modern heroine with her own Captain Wentworth. Blending fact and fiction together, the tale of Jane Austen's own quest for happiness weaves alongside, creating a believable world of new possibilities for the inspiration behind the beloved novel, Persuasion.


Freda Lightfoot MY LADY DECEIVER

Allison & Busby
Hardcover
24 September
£19.99 (RRP)
 1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put on the next boat back to England, leaving her family behind. But fate gives her a second chance when she befriends Lady Rosalind, a pregnant widow on her way to the home of her late husband's father, the wealthy Sir Ralph Tregowan. Having boarded the ship with one identity, fate decrees that Rosie leave it with another...As Rosie arrives in Cornwall as 'Rosalind', she must fend for herself amongst a new and bitterly resentful family. Rosie becomes increasingly trapped by her deception and the cruelty of those around her - the only light at the end of the tunnel seems to be the enigmatic Bryce Tregowan. With him the promise of a new life beckons, one of riches and even a title in beautiful Cornwall, but it is also one fraught with danger should her deceit be discovered. As she falls deeper into love and lies, can Rosie keep up the act, or will her secrets reveal themselves? And to what consequences?

Freda Lightfoot THE PROMISE
Allison & Busby
Paperback
26 September
£.7.99 (RRP)
San Francisco, 1904. Georgia Briscoe, a young woman from a good family, is unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp when she falls for handsome British sailor Ellis Cowper. Drew had the charm to dazzle everyone around him, but when the couple are married, it soon transpires that Drew's charm is only skin-deep, and that he is in fact a greedy gambling addict with a penchant for other women, including Georgia's maid Maura and jealous sister Prudence. When Georgia and Maura fall pregnant, both women decide to escape to be with the men they love, providing Prudence with an opportunity to seize Drew - and much more besides. London, 1948. When Chrissie Kemp travels to the Lake District to visit her grandmother Georgia, she is not prepared for the shocking revelation that is about to throw her family into turmoil. As a last act of vengeance on her death bed, Prudence claims that Chrissie's mother Vanessa and her late father Aaran are brother and sister. As the truth unfurls, the passion, emotion and astounding love that occurred in San Francisco forty years ago is revealed, and three generations of the family are tested to their limits.
 

Catherine King STOLEN PASSION
Hachette Digital
Ebook novella
September
£0.99
Period upstairs downstairs romance.













Vanessa Devereaux FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS
Cobblestone Press-Blue Line
electronic short story
99 cents
Ashley James thought stepping in for her friend Shannon and teaching the Introduction to Baking at night school was going to be routine...and boring. However, when Andy Logan decides to sign up, the class is anything but that. Ashley learns that doing a friend a favor has its many rewards.







Sunday, July 1, 2012

July Releases


Judy Astley - I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY
Bantam Press
Hardback
£16.99
Viola is a bit disaster-prone and this includes having had little luck with men.  Her first husband (the completely lovely father of daughter Rachel) was gay and her second was a philandering actor who was killed in a car accident while leaving Viola for his mistress.  She's rented out her house and is recuperating at her mother's home for a while.  When on her first real night out since the accident,  a puncture lands Viola’s car on a traffic island at midnight and she comes across a man there stealthily planting a quince tree, she doesn’t expect this to lead to adventures that involve guerrilla gardening and a summer full of surprises, disasters, fun and flowers.
 @judyastley
 Facebook.com/Judyastley



Jill Mansell A WALK IN THE PARK
A Walk in the Park
Headline Books
Paperback
 5th July.
£7.99
Romantic comedy set mainly in Bath, a bit in the Lake District...
It's been a while, but Lara Carson's back in Bath and lives are set to change as a result. Because Lara left her family and boyfriend Flynn eighteen years ago without a word to anyone. Why has no one heard from her since? Her childhood best friend Evie is thrilled Lara's back and able to share her happiness. Evie's about to walk down the aisle with her dream man, Joel. Or so she thinks... Then there's Flynn Erskine, even more attractive now and stunned to see Lara again. The spark between them is as strong as ever, but how's Flynn going to react when he discovers the secret she's been keeping from him? Oh yes, there's a lot of catching up to be done...

Kate Lace COX
Arrow Books
Paperback
£6.99
Gorgeous men in lycra, sex, intrigue and nailbiting rivalry set in the glamorous world of rowing in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics
















Christina Courtenay THE SILENT TOUCH OF SHADOWS
Choc Lit
Paperback
£7.99
What will it take to put the past to rest?
When a professional genealogist is harassed by a ghostly presence and decides to do some research on her own family tree, she uncovers a six hundred year old love story.









Amanda Grange PRIDE AND PYRAMIDS
Sourcebooks
Paperback
£9.99
The Darcys get pulled into the Regency craze for Egyptology in this sequel to Pride and Prejudice

Liz Fielding THE LAST WOMAN HE'D EVER DATE
Harlequin Romance
Paperback and eBook
$4.99
Claire Thackeray: Hardworking single mom and gossip columnist. Hoping for the inside scoop on sexy billionaire Hal North, aka her teen crush!
Most wary of: Gorgeous men who set her heart racing. (Been there, got the T-shirt—and the baby!)
Hal North: Bad boy made good. Back in his hometown as new owner of the Cranbrook Park estate. Determined to put his troubled past behind him.
Most wary of: Journalists—especially pretty ones, like new neighbor and tenant Claire Thackeray.




Annie Burrows AN ESCAPADE AND AN ENGAGEMENT
Harlequin Mills & Boon
paperback and ebook
Lady Jayne has vowed only to marry for love.  But where is she going to meet anyone even faintly interesting when her grandfather guards her so zealously?  Cue one pair of breeches purloined from a junior footman, a makeshift rope and an open bedroom window...












Sheila Newberry YOUNG MAY MOON
Robert Hale
Hardback
Price £18.99
On the silvery sands of Westwick, Suffolk, just before her sixteenth birthday, Young May Moon, as she is known to family and friends, fyulfils the promise made to her late father and becomes the Punch and Judy lady.  Assisted by her younger sister Pomona, Young May Moon discovers that performing is in her blood, as four years earler, from this same place, their fiery mother Carmen, a flamenco dancer absconded with the preacher from the rival entertainment.  The girls are befriended by the O'Flaherty family, also lodging at The Swan, and May experiences first love and the pain of parting...  



Vanessa Devereaux I'M ALL YOURS (Book Two of the Perfect Pairing series)
Evernight Publishing
e book
July 16th
Kyle and Evie only think they hate one another...well, that's according to Sadie Sutton who thinks with a little casting of a spell and the help of Perfect Pairing, these two enemies will soon be lovers











Kat Black PLEASURE BOUND
Ellora's Cave
Novella
$4.45
Sam Tyler is thrilled to discover that her lover is whisking her away for a weekend of exotic luxury as a treat for her birthday. As a woman who knows just what she wants—her man all tied up like a living, breathing present—she’s quick to take advantage of his generous mood and begins planning a surprise of her own. One that turns out to be a hell of tough ask for a man who insists on always being in control. Does Adam had the strength it takes to surrender?








Jane Wenham-Jones PRIME TIME
Accent Press
Paperback
£7.99
5th July
Laura Meredith never imagined herself appearing on TV she s too old, too flabby, too downright hormonal, and much too busy holding things together for her son, Stanley, after her husband left her for a younger, thinner replacement. But best friend Charlotte is a determined woman and when Laura is persuaded on to a daytime show to talk about her PMT, everything changes. Suddenly there s a camera crew tracking her every move and Laura finds herself an unlikely star. But as things hot up between her and gorgeous TV director, Cal, they re going downhill elsewhere. While Laura s caught up in a heady whirlwind of beauty treatments, makeovers and glamorous film locations, Charlotte s husband, Roger, is concealing a guilty secret, Stanley s got problems at school, work s piling up, and when Laura turns detective to protect Charlotte s marriage, things go horribly wrong. The champagne s flowing as Laura s prime time TV debut looks set to be a hit. But in every month, there s a "Day Ten" ...

Veronica Henry THE LONG WEEKEND
Orion
Paperback
£6.99

In a gorgeous quay-side hotel in Cornwall, the long weekend is just beginning . . .

Claire Marlowe owns 'The Townhouse by the Sea' with Luca, the hotel's charismatic chef. She ensures everything runs smoothly - until an unexpected arrival checks in and turns her whole world upside down.

And the rest of the guests arrive with their own baggage. There's a couple looking for distraction from a family tragedy; a man trying to make amends for an affair he bitterly regrets . . . and the young woman who thinks the Cornish village might hold the key to her past.

Here are affairs of the heart, secrets, lies and scandal - all wrapped up in one long, hot weekend.



Kate Harrison SOUL FIRE
Orion Indigo July 5th
Trade Paperback
£8.99
It's getting hotter on the Beach: as Alice gets closer to the killer, the killer gets closer to Alice. Watch out: Passion burns.
www.kate-harrison.com












Rosanna Ley   The Villa
Quercus Original Paperback
July 2012
£6.99
When Tess Angel receives a solicitor’s letter inviting her to claim her inheritance – the Villa Sirena perched on a clifftop in Sicily - she is stunned.  Her only link to the island is through her mother, Flavia, who left Sicily during World War II and cut off all contact with her family. Initially resistant to Tess going back to Sicily, Flavia realizes the secrets from her past are about to be revealed and decides to try to explain her actions.  Meanwhile, Tess’ teenage daughter Ginny is stressed by college and filled with questions that she longs to ask her father, if only she knew where he was.   Three women, all seeking answers.  Will Villa Serena bring them together – or drive them apart?  





Angela Britnell   IT'S COMPLICATED
Desert Breeze Publishing
Multiple E-book formats
$5.99
Charles ‘Black Ash’ Ashton temporarily abandons his jet-setting lifestyle to avoid being blamed for a multi-million pound poker scam and meets quiet, elegant math teacher Emily Worthing but the odds aren’t in their favor. After a disastrous affair cost Emily her heart and prestigious job she prizes honesty above all things. Ash makes his living at the poker table, where a little deviousness and the occasional white lie never hurt. Ash must leave behind his irresponsible past and Emily searches for the strength to forge a new future. Ash puts all his cards on the table one last time and he and Emily prove they’ve an ace in the hand called love.







Janey Fraser  THE AU PAIR 
Arrow
July 19th
Jilly sets up an au pair business around her kitchen table to make ends meet. Marie-France becomes an au pair in order to find her English father. And motherless eight year old  Lottie is determined to drive away one au pair after another – until she finds the perfect match!

Lynne Connolly IN THE MOOD
Ellora's Cave
ebook
$5.99
The sound of a saxophone drifting out of a Chicago blues club sends Matt
inside, hoping to sign the player for his recording studio. Instead he finds
V. Passion drives them from that moment on, and Matt can’t get enough of her
sweet body and generous spirit. But as a former drug addict who
spectacularly crashed out of the rock band Murder City Ravens, he has a lot
to prove.

V thinks she’s happy with her lot until she receives an offer to join one of
the most innovative and exciting bands in the world. Joining Murder City
Ravens could sever her from Matt forever. How can she join the band when
she’s spending her nights with the man who nearly destroyed everything they
had?

Matt and V have decisions to make that might give them their life’s dream,
but could split them apart. Which is more important, personal fulfillment or
love? Is it possible to have both?




Nell Dixon A NEW BAY WEDDING
Astraea Press
Ebook
£1.30
Emma has been busy organizing her older brother’s lovelife but now Noah plans to turn the tables on his meddlesome match-making sister. But is Ian the best man for this very particular bridesmaid?
£1.30
Part of the Cornish Short and Sweet series.








DJ Kirby MY DREAM OF YOU
Punked Books
Ebook
£1.53
One summer’s day, Betty let love carry her a step too far. That exquisite sun dappled afternoon became one of her best memories, but also the catalyst for the worst experience of her life. Now elderly, Betty has been running from her past since she was a teenager, and it’s about to catch up with her. Will the experience be as awful as she fears, or wonderful beyond imagining? 









Sheryl Browne SOMEBODY TO LOVE
Safkhet Publishing
Paperback or ebook
1 July 2012
£ 7.99 ,$12.99, EUR 9.99
Somebody to Love…How do you tell her?
After a turbulent marriage to a man who walked off hand-in-offshoot with something resembling a twig, divorced mum, Donna O'Conner, doubts happy endings exist. She'd quite like to find herself an Adonis with… pecs …and things. Alas, that's not likely, when her only interest outside of work is hopping her three-legged dog in the park, carrying a poop-scoop. In any case, Donna isn't sure she'd know what to do with an Adonis if she fell on one. When PC Mark Evans comes along, gloriously gift-wrapped in blue, however, she can't help wishing she did.
Mark, a single father, is desperate for love. He doesn't hold out much hope, though, that there is a woman out there with a heart big enough to love him and his autistic son. Enter big-hearted Donna, plus three-legged dog. And now Mark has a dilemma. Pretending not to mind her house-bunny chewing his bootlaces, he's smitten with Donna on sight. Should he tell her his situation up-front? Announcing he has a child with autism spectrum disorder on a first date tends to ensure there isn't a second. Or should he skirt around the subject, which amounts to a lie? When one lie leads to another, can he ever win Donna's trust back? Admit that he didn't trust Donna enough to let her into his life?

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Independent Releases for March


Benita Brown A MARRIAGE VOW
ebook
March 2012
£1.91
A scheming little gold-digger! Her wealthy husband scarcely cold in his grave and she embarks on an affair with a toy boy.  That’s how the gutter press see Gina.  Is it any wonder that Sam Redmond agrees with them when he remembers how badly she treated him in the past.  Is there any way Gina can prove her innocence?











Amanda Grange TITANIC AFFAIR
ebook
March 2012
£3.86 / $6.05
Thoroughly researched historical romance set on board Titanic.
"Excellent" - Historical Novel Society

Monday, May 2, 2011

May Releases


Freda Lightfoot ANGELS AT WAR
Allison & Busby
7.99 Paperback
Livia dreams of resurrecting the neglected drapery business, but with the determined Matthew Grayson standing in the way of her ambitions, Livia must stay true to her heart, or risk losing everything.











Amanda Grange HENRY TILNEY’S DIARY
31 May
£18.99 (£11.49 on Amazon) Hardback
A retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, including a prequel, from the hero's point of view.





Alex Beecroft SHINING IN THE SUN
Samhain Publishing
3rd May 2011
£7.42 Paperback
A rich boy/poor boy holiday romance set in the gorgeous Cornish countryside. Because love can make heroes out of the most unlikely material.











Chrissie Loveday A LOVE SHARED
Gale in US and AudioGo(ex BBC) in UK
18/05/11
Sarah is happy being a career woman until she meets her new colleague. Fortunately, he adores horses too.


Gilli Allan TORN
April 1st
£2.59 (ebook)
Escaping the turmoil of her London life, Jessica looks for sanctuary. In the country she can put her child first. But old habits die hard. She’s torn between the suitable man and the unsuitable boy.

For an extract go to www.gilliallan.blogspot


Hazel Osmond WHO’S AFRAID OF MR WOLFE?
Quercus
14th April 2011
£6.99 Paperback
Ellie Somerset finds herself both repelled and attracted to the sexy and dangerous Jack Wolfe when he becomes her boss. But this particular wolf has an awful lot to hide.









JL Merrow CAMWOLF
Samhain Publishing
May 17th
£3.14 on Kindle
To save his lover, he must become his own worst nightmare.

Link to publisher's site for excerpt:









Linda Gillard HOUSE OF SILENCE
2 April
E-book for Kindle
A romantic comedy-drama from the author of Star Gazing. A decaying mansion... A decaying family... A determined young woman wants to know the truth about her lover. Whatever the consequences. Cold Comfort Farm meets Rebecca.


Margaret Mounsdon A MATTER OF PRIDE
Ulverscroft Large Print
May 1 2011
£8.99
Following a broken engagement Rhianna O'Neill  inherits a wilful half sister just as old flame Luc Fermier comes back into her life. That is when her problems really begin.











Paula Williams PLACE OF HEALING
Ulverscroft Large Print (Linford Romance Library)
1st May 2011
£8.99Paperback
When talented cook Jess flees to Somerset after being betrayed by her boyfriend and best friend, she finds herself  caught up in old rivalries and family quarrels, an abandoned dog and, eventually, a new love.


Christina Courtenay DESPERATE REMEDIES
Dales Large Print
1st May 2011
£11.99 (paperback)
A stolen kiss, a captured heart - Lexie can't forget the man she fell in love with all those years ago.  How can she make sure the aptly named Lord Synley notices her second time around?


Romy Gemmell DANGEROUS DECEIT
Champagne Books
May 6th
e-book (followed by print); Price TBA
Enigmatic Marcus Sheldon unsettles spirited Lydia Hetherington. But spies, villains and a tangled web of deception bring danger until a traitor is unmasked.








Susan Palmquist/Vanessa Devereaux WHAT THE LADY WANTS (Story Three of The Brazen Ladies Trilogy)
Cobblestone Press
May 20th, 2011
$2.99
Erotic Regency Novella
Marriage to Lord Davenport isn't want Fiona planned. While he has good social standing, her husband to be is impotent. However, when Fiona meets the dashing Henry Dalglish it seems things are about to turn in Fiona's favor. And when she offers him a deal he can't refuse, she gets exactly what she wants.

Short Stories

Portia Da Costa GLINT - an erotic short story
Walk on the Wild Side Books [an authors' co-operative] 9th May 2011
99 cents  - ebook
Lazing at the beach, sexy holidaymakers Suzy and Gavin see a flash of light from the headland. Somebody's watching them through binoculars, and deliciously turned on, the hedonistic pair decide to put on a wicked erotic performance for the voyeur!

Victoria Connelly ANDANTE
Sunday Express
May 1st
For one girl, nothing else matters but her violin.