Showing posts with label Vanessa Devereaux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vanessa Devereaux. Show all posts

Saturday, December 1, 2012

December Releases


Henriette Gyland UP CLOSE
Choc Lit
Paperback
£7.99
7th 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?




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.
  












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.



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.










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.


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?













Wendy Soliman THE FORSTERS Book 1/ Compromising the Marquess
Carina Press
E-book
10th 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…








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.




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


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 fiancée, 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