Review: Haunted Heart

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Title: 

Haunted Heart

Author: 

Carolyn Rosewood

Release Date:

July 1, 2011

Publisher:

Etopia Press

Word Count:

approx. 73,000

Purchase Links:  

Etopia Press

Author's Website:

http://carolynrosewood.com/

Description:  

Rowena Sommers thought moving back home to restore her beloved Aunt’s home was the key to starting over. Van Whitney thought taking the job would keep his business afloat. When a ghost hunter tries to convince Rowena the home is haunted, can these two escape the past and find a future together?

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Review: Southern Star

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Title: 

Southern Star

Authors: 

Phyllis Humphrey & Carolann Camillo

Release Date:

February 24, 2011

Publisher:

Avalon Books

Word Count:

approx. 47,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://phyllishumphrey.com

Description:  

Marilee’s inheritance, the yacht, Southern Star, is in default to the bank. To save it from the auction block, she decides to honor a Caribbean cruise planned for two couples. But with no captain available, she’s forced to approach Gary, a man she once loved but refused to marry. He agrees to skipper the cruise, but only if she comes along as crew. In addition to the danger of succumbing again to Gary’s charm and good looks, she has other problems. Trying to sell the yacht, the discovery of forgery, and the appearance of an unexpected visitor make the excursion anything but sea-worthy.

 

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Review: A New Dream

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Title: 

A New Dream

Author: 

Elaine Cantrell

Release Date:

March 22, 2011

Publisher:

Astraea Press

Word Count:

approx. 62,000

Purchase Links:  

Astraea Press 

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.elainecantrell.com

Description:  

What do you do when you lose everything?

After an auto accident destroys his pro-football career, Matt McCallum struggles to find a new dream for his life, but nothing engages him the way football did. After a stint in rehab, he takes a job managing a grocery store where he meets Violet Emerson.

Violet works in the bakery department, but her dreams carry her far beyond the doors of Chef’s Pantry. As soon as she can save the money, she plans to open a catering business. And she thinks the new manager’s broad shoulders and blue eyes are simply divine.

Thrown together at work, Matt and Violet find a common dream for their lives, but a loose end from Matt’s past returns to jeopardize their future. Will love be enough to save their new dream before it turns into a nightmare?

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Review: The Pendulum

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Title: 

The Pendulum: Legacy of the Celtic Brooch

Author: 

Tarah Scott

Release Date:

March 8, 2011

Word Count:

approx. 25,000

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All Romance

Author's Website:

http://www.tarahscott.com/

Description:  

Two demands for the promised payment of marriage.

Murder, deceit, and fraud pull Lady Airin Keith between these men.

Which one will bed her, claim her...own her?

Lady Airin Keith won't rest until Lord Jason Bothwell is tried and convicted for the murder of her sister. An unexpected marriage proposal brings an opportunity to prove the earl's guilt, but the knight who appears with her great grandmother's lost brooch threatens to interfere with Airin's brand of justice when he demands the agreed payment of marriage. 

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Review: In From The Cold

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Title: 

In From The Cold

Author: 

L.J. Holmes

Release Date:

June 10, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 26,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://linsownfirebrand.blogspot.com/

Description:  

Mari loves men who are intimately communicating with the Grim Reaper, like her only mountain neighbor, ninety-plus year old Hector. Twelve years and now she's enjoying her solitude, till Hector ups and dies.

He leaves everything to her, with one stipulation...she must sell his cabin to collect her inheritance.

Determined to keep her world testosterone free she commands her real estate agent to not even show the curmudgeon's cabin to anyone under the age of sixty-five.

Mari must leave for her son's wedding in the mid west for one month. Necessity requires she sign temporary power of attorney for a possible quick sale over to her real estate agent. A bad, but necessary move.

He's moving in and he's her son's age with rippling muscles, and far too much testosterone. All summer, Mari hunkers inside and drools.

Determined to make this stop, she sees only one solution...jump his bones, do the deed and get the annoying SOB out of her system once and for all.

Like most well designed plans, something always happens to blow them to smithereens, and now, three agonizing days later, a huge blizzard is about to hit the mountain, isolating the two cabins from the outside world...Oh Dear!

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Review: Rafe's Redemption

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Title: 

Rafe's Redemption

Author: 

Jennifer Jakes

Release Date:

February 25, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 89,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.jenniferjakes.com

Description:  

He rode into town to buy supplies, not a woman.

 

For hunted recluse Rafe McBride, the raven-haired beauty on the auction block  is exactly what he doesn't need. A dependant woman will be another clue his vengeful stepbrother can use to find and kill him. But Rafe's conscience won't let him leave another innocent's virginity to the riff-raff bidding. He buys her, promising to return her to St. Louis untouched. He only prays the impending blizzard holds off before her sultry beauty breaks his willpower.

 

She wanted freedom, not a lover.

 

Whisked to the auction block by her devious, gambling cousin, and then sold into the arms of a gorgeous stranger, outspoken artist Maggie Monroe isn't about to go meekly. Especially when the rugged mountain man looks like sin and danger rolled into one. But a blizzard and temptation thrust them together, and Maggie yearns to explore her smoldering passion for Rafe.

 

But when the snow clears, will the danger and secrets that surround Rafe and Maggie tear them apart?

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Review: Jezebel's Wish

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Title: 

Jezebel's Wish

Author: 

A.J. Nuest

Release Date:

April 15, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 81,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Author's Website:

http://ajbooks.blogspot.com/

Description:  

Haunted by nightmares, tormented by guilt, Jezebel came to Redemption Ranch to escape the past—except now she's stuck in the middle of nowhere with no redemption in sight. When her mother pushes her into riding lessons with local veterinarian Matthias Saunders, Jezebel balks. Sure, the doctor is gorgeous, but he’s completely obnoxious and knows how to push every one of her buttons.

Only her deep connection with The Reverend, a gentle stallion who guards her darkest secrets, has her agreeing to spend any more time with Dr. Saunders. Caring for the stallion is the first bright spot in her life in months, and if being around the horse means she has to deal with Matthias Saunders, then so be it. Surely a city girl like her can handle one country vet—even one with disturbing blue eyes. Can't she?

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Review: A Man Like That

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Title: 

A Man Like That

Author: 

Alison Henderson

Release Date:

June 29, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 90,000

Purchase Links: 

The Wild Rose Press 

Author's Website:

www.alisonhenderson.com

Description:  

Jessamine Randall, fearless crusader and champion of the downtrodden, is not a woman to be left waiting at the altar.  When her fiancé disappears hours before their wedding, the ever-resourceful Jessy hatches a plan to track him down and bring him back where he belongs.

Morgan Bingham knows he’s no good.  Never has been.  Never will be.  A former outlaw is no fit husband for the only daughter of the town judge, despite her misguided notions.  Besides, after ten long years away from home, it’s time to return to the hills and face his demons.

Ill-prepared, but armed with unshakeable certainty, Jessy follows Morgan to his family’s cabin deep in the Ozark Mountains where she’s sucked into a whirlpool of deep secrets and old hatreds.  While she struggles to bring light and hope into their dark lives, her greatest challenge is Morgan himself. Can she ever convince him he’s worthy of love?

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Review: Beyond a Proposition

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Title: 

Beyond a Proposition

Author: 

Rae Spencer

Release Date:

April 19, 2011

Publisher:

Lazy Day Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 30,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

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All Romance

Author's Website:

http://raespencer.webs.com/

 

Description:  

Skye Kavanaugh’s lonely mundane world shatters when Will Savage, the hot gravelly voiced singer of Ten and Five propositions her.  For the first time in her life Skye shoves common sense aside allowing physical attraction to guide her decision. She finds herself besieged by the domineering bad boy and tumbles beyond the boundaries of their agreement into an emotional entanglement. Faced with the reality of Will’s rock n’ roll lifestyle Skye must now make a choice. Can Will be a one-woman man? Or does the allure of a new woman in every town still rule him? Having come to her senses Skye must hold onto her courage and walk away before Will rocks her world beyond repair.

 

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Review: Forget-Me-Not

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Title: 

Forget-Me-Not

Author: 

Linda Morris

Release Date:

February 28, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 65,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://lindamorriswriter.blogspot.com/

Description:  

Lara Crosby left Chicago when her career as a big-time political fundraiser went sour. Determined to put the past behind her, she envisions a peaceful new life at her cabin in northern Minnesota. Everything changes on a dark night when a mysterious stranger suffers an accident outside her cabin.

Jacob Sumner awakens in the wilderness after a car accident with no idea who he is or why he is there. Lara is beautiful and kind, but she's a world away from the gritty world where he makes his living as a private investigator . . . or is she?

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Review: Finding the Missing Pieces

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Title: 

Finding the Missing Pieces

Author: 

Elaine Dyer

Release Date:

May 2, 2011

Publisher:

Lazy Day Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 62,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

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All Romance

OmniLit

Description:  

Finding the Missing Pieces, book two in Elaine Dyer’s Texas Trilogy, takes up where Mindset left off and tells the story of Eva Sandoval and Josh Dubeck. Eva has survived a nightmarish marriage and relocated to El Paso, Texas with her best friend, Callie, to begin a new life and embrace this fresh beginning. Callie’s brother Josh offers his legal services help Eva obtain a divorce from her affluent husband, while she searches not only for the path she will choose to follow as she begins this new chapter in her life, but also struggles to regain her self confidence, courage, and other missing pieces which she lost along the way while trapped in her abusive marriage. Josh’s interest in Eva evolves from professional and platonic in nature to protective and devoted and finally transcends into the romantic realm.

The more Eva sees of Josh, the more comfortable she becomes around him. He inspires trust and confidence, two things she’d thought never to associate with any man ever again. As her confidence and positive outlook continue to grow, so does her attraction to Josh. As Eva’s self esteem resurfaces, so do other needs and desires she thought she’d never consider indulging in again. But will her desire for a deeper, more emotional connection with Josh override the extreme caution and mistrust her previous marriage has instilled in her? And will Josh be able to protect her from her furious ex-husband when he is determined to force Eva into a reconciliation to avoid embarrassment and reestablish his dominance over her?

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Review: Spanking Lady Willow

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Title: 

Spanking Lady Willow

Author: 

B.L. Bonita

Release Date:

February 21, 2011

Publisher:

Noble Romance

Word Count:

approx. 12,000

Purchase Links:  

Noble Romance

Author's Website:

http://www.blbonita.net

Description:  

Divorce has never been so sweet . . . .

Sasha Borden is about to be a free woman. After years of vanilla sex with a distracted husband, the decision was obvious to end their marriage. If they can't find pleasure in their marriage bed, what else could they possibly have? Left with few options, Sasha decides to join the underground sex club, Sinful Epiphany, where strangers meet at a masquerade for a night of flesh-filled fantasy.

But what if the plan backfires, and the stranger gives her more than she ever bargained for? Will one night of stripped inhibitions lead to a lifetime of happy wife/happy life, or something more sinful?

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Review: Talk To Me

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Title: 

Talk to Me

Author: 

Cassandra Carr

Release Date:

March 2011

Publisher:

Loose ID

Word Count:

approx. 56,000

Purchase Links:  

Loose ID

Author's Website:

http://www.booksbycassandracarr.com 

Description:  

Radio producer Jamie MacMahon is in over her head with ex-hockey player-turned host Drew Milan. She’s attracted to the man who earned the nickname “the Beast” during his playing days from the moment they meet, but he’s her boss and she loves her new job. She’s made plenty of mistakes with men and loathes the thought of being yet another plaything for Drew, a man who sleeps with women but doesn’t date them.  

Drew doesn’t want to lose a great producer and knows Jamie deserves a real relationship, but can’t stay away from the sizzling chemistry they create every time they’re together. Jamie’s insecurities and the very real prospect of having to leave a great job if this thing doesn’t work out, coupled with Drew’s fears about opening his heart and the possibility of losing his first competent producer clash.

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Review: Deep in the Heat of Texas

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Title: 

Deep in the Heat of Texas

Author: 

Alta Hensley, Melissa Ecker, Amy LeBlanc

Release Date:

February 11, 2011

Publisher:

Lazy Day Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 56,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

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Description:  

Los Angeles Times reporter, Maggie Wright, is assigned to do a story on the dying dude ranch industry in the south. When the newspaper offers to foot the bill for Maggie and her two friends, Payton Evans and Sophia Foster, to stay at the legendary Weston Ranch in Valentine, Texas, they jump at the opportunity. While it’s not the Caribbean cruise they wanted, how bad could it be?

Expecting a tired farm with dusty old cowpokes, the three big city friends are taken by surprise when they’re each assigned to a dashing cowboy or two for some good, old fashioned ranch training and a whole lot of rough riding. Their limits are tested in ways they never imagined, both in the bedroom and out on the range. After two weeks, will the women run back to the bright lights of Los Angeles without so much as a backward glance? Or will these skilled cowboys have them longing to stay for just a little bit more of their Texas-style heat?

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Review: Fatal Embrace

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Title: 

Fatal Embrace

Author: 

Aris Whittier

Release Date:

October 2010

Publisher:

Five Star Expression

Word Count:

approx. 76,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://awhittier.blogspot.com/

Description:  

High-spirited horse trainer Jessica Stanson stumbles into the perfect job on one of the most elite ranches in Montana. Or at least it would be if her boss, ex-detective Michael Carven, stopped acting like he didn't want her there. Jessica has to prove herself to him on the ranch, and also try to penetrate his armor to get to the man inside. Michael Carven is a man who has left a difficult past behind him, and now works at his dream job raising horses under the Montana sky. But he knows that the past has a way of coming back to him, and soon enough, it does. 

A wave of violence hits the nearby small town of Riverside, nestled deep in the mountains, as a cunning serial killer preys on the population. Against his will, Michael finds himself both drawn into the case and coming to care for his independent new trainer. And if having a killer on the loose wasn't enough, his two worlds collide when Jessica becomes the only material witness in the case. 

Before it is over, Michael and Jessica will put everything they know and hold dear on the line to catch a vicious, cunning killer - and to protect each other as well.

 

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Review: How To Breathe Fire

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Title: 

How To Breathe Fire

Author: 

Shona Husk

Release Date:

January 18, 2011

Publisher:

Samhain Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 23,000

Purchase Links:  

Samhain Publishing

Amazon

Author's Website:

www.shonahusk.com

Description:  

Freedom comes with a blistering price…

For as long as she can remember, Camea has longed to explore the world beyond the island kingdom of Adar. It is an impossible dream, especially if she follows tradition and marries the farmer her parents have selected for her. But then, Camea has never been one to follow expectations.

When the village witch announces she has been selected to be the Fire God’s next bride, Camea has no intention of sacrificing her life to appease the volcano. She plans to escape and follow the Stars to her dream.

Matai, once a prince of Adar, now pays a fiery penance for seducing one of the Fire God’s witches. He must take a new bride each year, then kill her—or condemn Adar to the lava. Unlike his past brides Camea doesn’t shed one tear for her fate, nor does she beg for her life.

In the face of death she sees the remnants of the man he used to be—and a way to save them both from the Fire God’s never-ending cycle of wrath. If Matai has the courage to trust his heart.

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Review: Untamable

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Title: 

Untamable

Author: 

Becca Dale

Release Date:

January 21, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 18,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press

Author's Website:

http://beccadale.blogspot.com

Description:  

Eight years ago Lily Swanson left Havashaw County with a broken heart. Now circumstances have brought her back to the cowboy who still drives her crazy. Seeing him again stirs erotic memories, but the pain of his betrayal refuses to be soothed with a sexy smile.

Lily left him. That inescapable fact drives Thor Hanson to succeed more than any other. Her return to Havashaw triggers anger, lust and regret, but when she reveals the truth behind her leaving, he's determined to rein her in and show her that what they have is more than a memory.

Neither can deny their passion, as untamable as the broncs Thor trains. But will it be enough, and can Thor convince Lily she's right where she belongs?

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Review: Demons and Stilettos are a Girl's Best Friend

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Title: 

Demons and Stilettos Are a Girl's Best Friend

Author: 

Sandra Sookoo

Release Date:

May 2010

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 24,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press

Amazon

All Romance

Author's Website:

http://www.sandrasookoo.com/ 

http://sandrasookoo.wordpress.com/

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Anne Jenkins never believed there was a heaven or hell but when she’s rescued from a runaway horse by a guy who claims he’s a demon, her freak detector goes off.  She demands proof and the leather-clad biker sets some local wildlife on fire.  She starts to trust in a hurry.

Gregg Carter, bound to the Devil for all eternity because of an audit gone wrong, seizes the opportunity to take possession of Anne’s soul as a way to please his boss.  What he didn’t count on was the fact that his libido would take the one-way bus to crazy town as he gets to know her better.

Trouble is, Anne and Gregg spend so much time trying to hide their true selves from each other, they can’t escape the attraction that builds between them.  But everyone knows demons and humans don’t mix, and neither can two people who have no futures.

   

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Review: Last Rake Standing

 

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Title: 

Last Rake Standing

Author: 

Jayne Fresina

Release Date:

January 28, 2011

Publisher:

Evernight Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 26,000

Purchase Links:  

Evernight Publishing

Author's Website:

http://www.jaynefresina.com/

Description:  

In Victorian London, Emma Hale leads two lives. As Le Petite Oiseau, in corset and pink feathers, she'd the reigning queen of the music hall; offstage she's a prim-faced theatre seamstress. For years these two women have shared on body; now the share something else—forbidden love for a man who could destroy them both.

Marcus Craven, Duke of Penhale, wants Le Petite Oiseau as his mistress, but he's also sworn to hunt down and revenge himself on the hazel-eyed girl who once shot at him with a dueling pistol. On this winter's evening when he finds both women in his path, he suddenly faces a dilemma.

What exactly does Marcus want? The fiery, passionate actress or the quiet "mouse" hiding in her shadow?

Perhaps this notorious rake wants them both.

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Review: Ghostly Passions

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Title: 

Ghostly Passions

Author: 

Delilah K. Stephans

Release Date:

January 2011

Publisher:

MuseItHot Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 5,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://www.delilahkstephans.com/

Description:  

Devlin Ruark has been trapped in the same house for 230 years. He's faced a British hangman, numerous paranormal researchers, but he doesn't know what to do with the newest researcher.

Determined to prove that ghosts do exist, Druscilla Hutchinson has returned to the house where she saw her first ghost. With the Electromagnetic Particle Scanner she developed she hopes to give a ghost a more substantial form.

When the EMP Scanner produces an unusual side effect, Devlin and Druscilla have to decide whether to talk or take advantage of the situation.

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