Showing posts with label June Francis. Show all posts
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Monday, November 5, 2012

November Releases

Fiona Harper KISS ME UNDER THE MISTLETOE
Harlequin Mills & Boon
November 2012
£6.99
This Christmas, ex-WAG Louise is starting a new life away from the paparazzi – and her cheating husband. Can the diaries of a dead movie star help her figure out who she should be now she’s no longer Mrs Rich-and-Famous?
www.fionaharper.com











Margaret Moundson A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
Thorpe
1 November 2012
£8.99
Melissa Harper is back in town and Grace Maxwell was the girl who ruined her engagement to vet Daniel Stafford. He's back too and he is Grace's new boss.












Shirley Wells DYING ART
Carina Press
12 November 2012
£3.08
Portrait of a mystery
Dylan Scott vowed never to return to the dreary town of Dawson's Clough. But one visit from a beautiful ex-lover and he's back in Lancashire, investigating a possible murder. The police think Prue Murphy died during a burglary gone wrong, but her sister isn't so sure—and neither is Dylan. After all, the killer overlooked the only valuable thing in Prue's flat.
So who could have wanted the quirky young woman dead, and why? Dylan's search for answers takes him to France, where he discovers Prue's family didn't know her as well as they thought they did. And the more he digs, the more secrets he unearths—secrets someone would kill to keep buried…




Nell Dixon THE CINDERELLA SUBSTITUTE 
Astraea Press
1st Nov 2012
£1.28
In the two years since the tragic car crash that killed his fiancĂ©e, Nathanial (Nate) Mayer has successfully avoided another relationship.Jennifer (Jenni) Blake is Nate’s personal assistant. Hired after the accident, she has her own problems to deal with.
But even those difficulties pale into insignificance when Jenni finally traces her birth mother…







June Francis THE PAWNBROKER'S NIECE
Allison & Busby
26th November 2012
£7.99
When Eve Taylor leaves Liverpool for a new life in Cardiff, her teenage daughter Rita has little choice but to go and live with the aunt she never knew she had. Margaret Sinclair, the local pawnbroker, grudgingly agrees to look after her wayward niece. Despite an initial battle of wills the two soon become firm friends, especially when Rita re-introduces Margaret to her long lost childhood sweetheart William Brodie.

As the Great Depression hits, the Brodie family find themselves facing financial ruin - can Rita persuade her aunt to help or will her feelings for William get in the way of a deal?
As Rita's relationship with the Brodie family flourishes and secrets from Margaret's past emerge, both women must undertake a dramatic change of heart if they are to avoid making the same mistakes all over again.


Angela Brtinell FLAMES THAT MELT
DC Thomson
£1.99
Tish Carlisle, a successful Christmas ornament designer, returns from Tennessee to clear out her late father's house in Cornwall, little knowing what awaits her. Her first surprise is the unknown woman and baby she discovers living there. The second comes in the form of her father's solicitor, the sexy Italian, Nico De Burgh who Tish remembers as her first love, Nick Penwarren. Nico suffered the tragic loss of his Sicilian family and fights his attraction to Tish because of a promise made to his foster father. Tish isn't ready to give up on him and the first time they make love it's everything they could've imagined. It's only when their relationship appears doomed that they finally share the secrets they've been hiding and plan a future together.
Scarlet Wilson HER CHRISTMAS EVE DIAMOND
Mills and Boon
5 November 2012
£5.49
Nurse Cassidy Rae is a stickler for rules, but even she revels in the magic of Christmas! This year, however, new registrar Brad Donovan's surfer-boy looks and cocky charm are severely testing her goodwill to all men.  But in the festive season miracles can happen, and Brad's about to give Cassidy a Yuletide to remember...


Rae Summers AN INNOCENT ABROAD
The Wild Rose Press
14 November 2012
$3.99
Isobel Harrington, fresh from her English finishing school in the summer of 1922, is sent to visit cousins in Italy for just one reason: to catch the eye of their wealthy and eligible house guest.
But the man who awakens Isobel's passion is not the respectable British heir to a nobleman -- it is local Italian Stefano, an enigma who doesn't fit any of the "boxes" she's been taught to expect.
In Stefano's arms she experiences a sexual awakening. He dares her to follow her dreams, but is she brave enough to defy convention, and her parents' expectations, to pursue her own happiness?

Annie Burrows HIS WICKED CHRISTMAS WAGER
Mills & Boon
November 2012
£1.99
The last person Lord Crispin Sinclair expects to see in a disreputable inn is the woman he's there to forget: Lady Caroline Fallowfield. He hasn't forgiven her for marrying another man--or forgotten their mutual passion. When she implores him to come home for his brother's Christmas nuptials, he agrees--if the now-widowed Caroline is willing to share his bed and take another gamble on love...









Mary Nichols THE CAPTAIN'S KIDNAPPED BEAUTY
Mills & Boon
November 2012-11-01
£4.99

Abducted and taken aboard a merchant ship bound for India, Charlotte Gilpin, the wealthy daughter of a coachmaker in Georgian London, desperately searches for a way to escape. Her rescuer comes from the most unlikely of sources - Captain Alexander Carstairs - a man with whom she has crossed swords in the past.
And when they land in Portugal and she learns who her abductor is, she finds her own way to escape, not only from her abductor but her rescuer too, leaving both of them searching for her...
This is another story of the Piccadilly Gentlemen’s Club



Chrissie Loveday CORNISH KILLING
Easy Reads
Bridges and Knights (My Weekly that was)
November 15th
£1.99

‘Emma is invited to Cornwall to stay in her friend Charlie’s newly inherited cottage. But there is no sign of her anywhere. Things start to go wrong for Emma and this leads to more adventures. Can she cope with everything that has happened to her?’







Vonnie Hughes CAPTIVE
Musa Publishing
9th November
$2.99
When Alexandra Tallis discovers that her witless sister has imprisoned their father’s nemesis, Theo Crombie in their attic, she quickly frees him, fighting an unladylike impulse to keep him as her own special captive. Despite the brutal beating she receives from her father for her actions, Alexandra continues to yearn for the delicious Mr. Crombie even though she knows that nothing will ever come of her dreams.

Injured and shackled in a stranger’s attic, Theo unexpectedly discovers the woman of his dreams. But how can he pursue those dreams when her bizarre family’s complex relationships threaten the very foundation of his existence? Somehow Theo must find a way through this maze to claim his lady.
www.vonniehughes.com

Vanessa Devereaux CONFESSION OF LOVE
Evernight Publishing (Romance on the Go line)
12th November
Dana thought she’d hit a homeless guy…a very handsome homeless guy but when he turns up at her office a month later, revealing that he’s an undercover cop, Dana can’t believe it. She’s also shocked when he asks her to have dinner with him. It would be perfect but she’s got this one little rule, she never dates cops. Ian Kincaide knows rules are meant to be broken and just what he will resort to, to make Dana see reason?
www.vanessadevereaux.com








Vanessa Devereaux STRANGER IN TOWN
Cobblestone Press (Blue Line)
15th November
Laura Reed found herself in a strange town, and after slipping on the ice, in the ER. However, it’s not all bad news because Paul Crosby mistakes Laura for his sister. After the two get chatting and he offers to drive her back to her hotel, Laura finds out that being a stranger in town can have its pluses.
www.vanessadevereaux.com


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.







Tuesday, November 2, 2010

November Releases

Margaret James THE SILVER LOCKET
Choc Lit
1st November
£7.99 (paperback)

As the First World War gets under way, Rose Courtenay runs away from home to become an army nurse, falls in love with a married man, and has to make many difficult choices
.


Sue Moorcroft WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?
Choc Lit
1 November 2010
£7.99
Money and love? Which matters most?




















Karen Abbott A LOVE WORTH WAITING FOR
F. A. Thorpe Linford Romance Series - Large Print
November 2010
Cost - £8.99
Jasmine Jones gets the opportunity to open a Teashop in the lovely village
of Manorbier in Pembrokeshire -- but when disturbing things begin to happen,
Jasmine wonders who wants her business to fail...surely not local artist
Rhys Morgan ?




Trisha Ashley TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
Avon HarperCollins
October 28th
Cost 6.99
For widow Holly Brown, looking after a remote house on the Lancashire moors seems the perfect way to escape the festivities - but when the owner unexpectedly returns just before a blizzard cuts the village off, the Twelve Days of Christmas take a very unexpected turn.












Annie Burrows A COUNTESS BY CHRISTMAS (in anthology "Regency Mistletoe and Marriages"
which also contains story by Joanna Maitland, "The Earl's Mistletoe Bride")
Mills and Boon
November 2010
£6.99
Two sparkling regency romances, set during the Christmas season



















Lynne Connolly UNBROKEN
Total E-Bound
November 8th 2010
Cost TBA
Zoltan's looking for imperfection, and he finds it in Vashti.

























Dilly Court A MOTHER’S SECRET
Arrow
4 November 2011
£19.99
Raised in a notorious East End baby farm, Cassy thinks that the Indian woman
who saves her from the gutter is her mother, but she has yet to learn the
secret of her birth.


Liz Fielding MISTLETOE AND THE LOST STILETTO
Harlequin "Romance"
$4.50 US
With the entire world hunting for Lucy, hiding out in Santa's Grotto seemed like a good idea. Ho, ho, ho...























Liz Fielding A STRANGER'S KISS
Linford Romance Library
November, £8.99
Tara takes refuge with a stranger to avoid a stalker.  Out of the frying pan into the roasting pan...


























June Francis SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS
Allison & Busby Ltd.
8th November,
£7.99
Patsy Doyle is settled into her role as live-in-maid to the Tanners'
household whilst Joy Kirk is busy planning her wedding but have both let themselves in for more than they bargained?






















Kate Harrison THE SECRET SHOPPER UNWRAPPED
Orion
November 11
£6.99
Sandie, Emily and Grazia are on the warpath, exposing shocking Christmas shopping experiences, while they try to juggle love lives, family sagas and sabotage as December 25 approaches...


















Anna Jacobs PERSONS OF RANK
Magna Large Print
15 November, 2010
£20.99
Regency romance: The dowager believes people of rank should not fall in love but her granddaughter and niece can’t help themselves, which brings a tangle of complications.




















Jan Jones THE PENNY PLAIN MYSTERIES (Part 1 of 4: The Jigsaw Puzzle)
Four-part serial
People's Friend (weekly magazine)
Starts 24th November 2010 (Issue dated 27.10.10)
85p or thereabouts
A jigsaw from the past propels Penny to a puzzling future.








Freda Lightfoot ANGELS AT WAR
Allison & Busby Ltd.
November 2010
£19.99
Racked with guilt over the tragic death of her sister Maggie, Livia promises never to let anyone down again and to do something worthwhile with her life.













Freda Lightfoot HOUSE OF ANGELS
Magna large print
October 2010
£20.99
The Angel sisters struggle to escape their bullying father and find an
unexpected half-sister.


























Freda Lightfoot HOSTAGE QUEEN
ebook
November 2010
£6.99 +VAT
In a court rife with murder, political intrigue, debauchery, jealousy and
the hunger for power, can Marguerite de Valois hope to keep her head.
























Chrissie Loveday FROM THIS DAY ON
Ulverscroft Linford Romance Large Print
November 2010
£8.99
Set in a Cornish village, misogenist male doctor meets his new female locum
and sparks fly ... but they reckon without his aunt who's a bit of witch.







Sue Moorcroft STARTING OVER
Isis (Large Print hardback)
1 November 2010
£20.95
New home, new friends, new love. Can starting over be that simple?

















Sue Moorcroft ONE SUMMER IN MALTA
Isis
01 November 2010
£11.99
Tina has only one opportunity to spend a summer in Malta. Shame the past is waiting for her there.


























Gillian Villiers TOMORROW’S PROMISE
Thorpe Large Print
1 November 2010
Cost - £8.99
Lara is determined never to risk falling in love, but when she takes up a
new post and agrees to share a house with laid-back fellow teacher Mick, she
finds it isn’t quite so simple.



SHORT STORIES

Kate Jackson THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
Short Story
Peoples Friend Christmas Special
DC Thomson
28th October
£2.99
Christmas will never be same again without Grace.

Monday, May 17, 2010

An Event in Liverpool - Pages Ago

Readers in Liverpool!

June Francis and Melinda Hammond are attending the launch of Pages Ago at the Bluecoats Arts Centre in Liverpool on Tueday 18th May. The aim of Pages Ago is to encourage more reading of history - fiction and non-fiction and the launch wil include a panel discussion chaired by Dr Jerome de Groot, Lecturer in English and American Stides at Manchester University and will include writer Sarah Dunant, Egyptologist Dr Joce Tyldesley and Juliet Gardiner, Review Editor of History Today.

The discussion should be lively and if anyone would like to come along, the launch event starts at 3 pm and ends around 5 pm. Tickets and more information can be found at https://www.patronbase.com/_BC/Productions/1218/Performances




Sunday, November 1, 2009

November Releases



Jan Jones -FORTUNATE WAGER
Hale
November 2009
£18.99
Secrets and subterfuge on the Regency racecourse -- a Newmarket Regency
http://jan-jones.blogspot.com/

























Jan Jones - FAIR DECEPTION
Ulverscoft Large Print
November 2009
£16.99Secrets and scandal on (and off) the Regency stage -- a Newmarket Regency
http://jan-jones.blogspot.com/








Janet Gover - THE BACHELOR AND SPINSTER BALL

Little Black Dress
12 Nov 2009
£5.99

Best friends Bec and Hailey get a lot more than they planned when their tiny Australian outback town hosts a black tie ball under the stars.
http://www.janetgover.com/


















Sarah Duncan - A SINGLE TO ROME
Headline Review
26th November 2009
£6.99
Sex, love and pasta...
http://www.sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/

























Jean Fullerton - A GLIMPSE AT HAPPINESS
Orion
19th November
£12.99
Fate tore them apart. But will love bring them together?http://www.jeanfullerton.com/
















Sabrina Phillips - PRINCE OF MONTEZ, PREGNANT MISTRESS
Harlequin Mills and Boon Modern6 Nov 2009
Art restorer Cally Greenway loses out on the restoration project of her career and seeks solace in the arms of a stranger...only to find he's the one responsible for wrecking her dreams, and a Prince who wants her as his mistress!
http://www.sabrinaphilips.com/










Liz Fielding - CHRISTMAS ANGEL FOR THE BILLIONAIRE
(2-in-1 with Under the Boss's Mistletoe by Jessica Hart)
Mills & BoonNovember
£4.99
Lady Rose is on the run but she comes to a full stop when she meets George Saxon
http://lizfielding.blogspot.com/













Liz Fielding - AN IMAGE OF YOU
Linford Romance Library
November£8.99
LP Library Reprint
The night in jail is the last straw and Georgette's father delivers an ultimatum. But even he doesn't realise just how bad it is.
http://lizfielding.blogspot.com/


Lesley Cookman - MURDER BY THE SEA
Large Print
Isis
£19.95
http://www.lesleycookman.co.uk/
http://lesleycookman.blogspot.com/
Lesley Cookman - MURDER BY THE SEA
Audio CD
Isis
£34.95
http://www.lesleycookman.co.uk/
http://lesleycookman.blogspot.com/


Lesley Cookman - MURDER IN BLOOM
Audio CD
Soundings
£42.50http://www.lesleycookman.co.uk/
http://lesleycookman.blogspot.com/









Jo Beverley - LADY NOTORIOUS
Everlyn Books
November 3rd, 2009
6.99
The new UK edition of this RITA winning Georgian romance which has appeared on many Best Historical Romance lists.
http://www.jobev.com/
















Portia Da Costa - SHADOWPLAY
Virgin Black Lace
10th November [USA reprint]
$12.95
When wayward, sophisticated Christabel is forced to take an extended country holiday she foresees only long days of bucolic boredom and sexual ennui. But she's reckoned without the hidden agenda of Nicholas, her deviously sensual husband, and the presence of unexpected stimuli within the grounds of a brooding old mansion house.
http://www.portiadacosta.com/








Sue Moorcroft - STARTING OVER
Choc Lit
30 November 2009
£7.99.
New home, new friends, new love. Can starting over be that simple? http://www.suemoorcroft.com/














Cat Marsters - EMPIRE: DAWN RISING
Changeling Press (ebook)
20th Nov
$4.99 (approx £3)
Seven years ago, the Prince led a rebellion against the Empire. It resulted in huge loss of life, including his own. Or so it's thought...
http://etaknosnhoj.blogspot.com/
http://catmarsters.com/
















Kate Harrison - OLD SCHOOL TIES
Orion
12 November£6.99
Friends and enemies reunited... when former school ‘queen bee’ Tracey agrees to have her class reunion filmed for TV, she expects hero-worship, not revenge (this is the ‘director’s cut’ of my first book, re-edited to reflect what I’ve learned about writing after another six novels!).











Annie Burrows -DEVILISH LORD, MYSTERIOUS MISS
Mills & BoonPublication
6th November 2009
£3.79
The menacing Lord Matthison has the reputation of the devil. Living on the fringes of polite society, he is haunted by the death of his fiancee seven years ago. For her body has never been found. When he encounters a woman who is the image of his betrothed, he is convinced she has somehow survived, and determines to do whatever it takes to claim her...
http://www.annie-burrows.co.uk/













Anna Jacobs - IN FOCUS
Severn House
November 2009
£18.99
When a new feature on Pete Newbury's popular TV programme shows his adult image digitally transformed to that of a young child, Beth is shocked to realise he's her 'baby' brother, who vanished without trace 38 years ago.
http://www.annajacobs.com/













Anna Jacobs _ SAVING WILLOWBROOK
Severn House
November 2009
£10.99
Ella Turner is trying to save the farm that has been in her family for hundreds of years from her rapacious ex-husband - with the help of an attractive





June Francis - HIS RUNAWAY MAIDEN
Mills & Boon

£3.79

Fleeting the clutches of her cruel stepmother, Rosamund Appleby, dons a youth's disguise and heads for London until she is halted in her racks by Baron Alex Nilsson.


Lynne Connolly - BEAUTY OF SUNSET
Ellora's Cave
11th November 2009
$4.45
Ex supermodel Edie Howard finds six new friends - and a younger man. Part of the Cougar Challenge series


Fenella Jane Miller - LADY CHARLOTTE'S SECRET
My Weekly Pocket Novel
9th November 2009
£1.50
When the gentleman who rescues Charlotte expresses his dislike of aristocrats, Lady Charlotte is dismayed. Can she keep her secret?
http://www.fenellajmiller.co.uk/




Jane Jackson - HEART OF STONE
Severn House
1st November 2009
£18.99
When outcast Sarah Govier is threatened with losing her quarry and her young son she turns for help to scarred recluse James Crago changing both their lives.
http://www.janejackson.net/



Dilly Court - A MOTHER'S WISH
Arrow Books
5 November 2009
£19.99
When her bullying father-in-law hires villainous Salter and his wife to run their narrowboat on the River Lea, young widow, Effie Grey faces a life of near slavery as she tries to raise her baby son.

Cara Cooper - TAKE A CHANCE ON LOVE
FA Thorpe
November 2009
£8.99
Fleeing family tragedy, Marie finds love and mystery in an old countryhouse.
Jen Black - TILL THE DAY GO DOWN
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November 2009
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A tale of romance and adventure set in 1543, when theft, kidnapping and arson were a way of life on the borders between England and Scotland.
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Victoria Connelly - A Modern-day Dorothea
'Mixed Moss' - The Journal of the Arthur Ransome Society.
http://www.victoriaconnelly.com/