Review: Hauntings of the Heart

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Title: 

Hauntings of the Heart

Author: 

Joselyn Vaughn

Release Date:

October 25, 2011

Publisher:

Astraea Press

Word Count:

approx. 65,000

Purchase Links: 

Astraea Press

Amazon

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Author's Website:

http://joselynvaughn.com

Description:  

When lost love shows up on your doorstep, what do you do?  Minnie Schultz slams the door in his face. She and Gordon Anderson have a history—close to ancient history, given the fifty years since their last encounter. After all that time, it might seem like water under the bridge. But the water pours from the plumbing in Minnie’s bed and breakfast, the Lilac Bower, uncovering all the secrets and heartache between them. With the help of some paranormal investigators, an Elvis impersonator and a couple of nosey friends, can Minnie and Gordon find the future they were meant to have?

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Review: Embracing the Lemonade Life

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Title:            

Embracing the Lemonade Life                                 

Author: 

Sandra Sookoo

Release Date:

August 15, 2011

Publisher:

Desert Breeze Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 33,000

Purchase Links:  

Desert Breeze Publishing

Amazon 

All Romance

Author's Website:

http://www.sandrasookoo.com

Description:  

Clara Tildon, a cancer survivor, has no time for defeatism. She’s opened up the Cute as a Button B & B in Bridgewater, Indiana, and along with her guinea pig, is embracing the lemonade lifestyle. Everything is perfect, except for the nagging sensation that she would still like to fall in love.

Jake Yates has returned to Bridgewater, the town he grew up in, for his friend’s wedding and he’s not happy about it. The people of Bridgewater can keep their small town life, it’s in his past and that’s where he intends it to stay. Even loneliness can’t make him reconsider his decisions.

A chance meeting. A fleeting kiss. Suddenly two polar opposites get a unique chance at love. But can Clara give up living in the moment long enough to see Jake as an opportunity she needs to plan for? Can Jake alter his well-laid plans to fit Clara in his life? Or will they both let love get away? 

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Review: Matching Wits with Venus

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Title: 

Matching Wits With Venus

Author: 

Therese Gilardi

Release Date:

April 19, 2011

Publisher:

Astraea Press

Word Count:

approx. 85,000

Purchase Links:  

Astraea Press 

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://theresegilardi.com

Description:  

For centuries Cupid has longed to be more than Venus’s arrow boy.  When he’s sent to eliminate “Happily Ever After by Amelia”, the matchmaking business threatening Venus’s status as the goddess of love, Cupid decides to steal Amelia’s methods and make his own matches.  While spying on Amelia, Cupid accidentally shoots himself with his magical arrow and falls in love with her.  But bereaved Amelia doesn’t believe in the existence of Roman gods, and she’s certainly not looking for romance.  She’s too busy perfecting the patented personality profile that’s made her Hollywood’s favorite matchmaker.

Disguising himself as a mortal financial advisor, Cupid manages to break through Amelia’s guarded exterior.  As their passion deepens so does Cupid’s guilt about deceiving Amelia.  Cupid’s interference with Amelia’s life causes her business to falter, leads to a sterile spring that threatens the animal kingdom and shatters the longstanding peace between the Roman and Greek gods.  With the fate of the natural and under worlds at stake, Cupid must decide whether to reveal his true identity and risk losing the chance to live happily ever after with Amelia.

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Review: Ellie's Song

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Title: 

Ellie's Song

Author: 

Ginger Hanson

Release Date:

January 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 68,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press

Author's Website:

www.gingerhanson.com

http://missmabeltalkstassanoxie.blogspot.com/

Description:  

Take one heroine and hero gripped in relationship limbo. Stir in a possible media scandal. Sprinkle lightly with a three-year-old child. Add one mother-in-law,a former boyfriend, a celebrity reporter hot for a story break and a Hollywood starlet. Knead above ingredients. Cover and let rise in a warm place. Bake for 31 chapters. Yield: Ellie’s Song, the story of shy folk artist Ellie Kellson who loves country singer Lane Walker, but abhors the media attention he needs to be a successful singing artist.

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Review: Secrets in the Sand

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Title: 

Secrets in the Sand

Author: 

Alana Lorens

Release Date:

April 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 58,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Author's Website:

http://alanalorens.com 

Description:  

After a run of bad relationships, Lily Pearl Evans has finally become an independent woman. In the New Mexico desert town of Chaparral, she works for herself in her own house,  she sets her own rules, and she's determined no man will hold her back again.

Gene Nicholas worked for more than a decade to achieve his dream to be a doctor. Wanting to share his gifts with those less fortunate, he leaves South Florida to volunteer for a tour with Doctors without Borders in Mexico.

When Gene provokes a showdown with the local Mexican drug cartel, he becomes a man with a price on his head. On the run, he ends up on Lily’s doorstep, a mystery man forced to conceal his past to protect them both. With the cartel’s dangerous web drawing tight around them, can Lily and Gene survive a druglord’s revenge?

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Review: Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights

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Title: 

Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights

Author: 

Jean Joachim

Release Date:

February 8, 2011

Publisher:

Astraea Press

Word Count:

approx. 42,000

Purchase Links:  

Astraea Press

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.nowandforeverbooks.com/

Description:  

Caroline Davis White is a well-known artist married to a philandering multi-millionaire. She has everything any woman could want except love. Brad refuses to give her the divorce she so desperately wants.  With no money, family, or friends, she flees to the Catskill Mountains where she spent her summers as a child.

Mike Foster achieved success and made more money than he could ever have dreamed, but it destroyed his marriage and cost him his son.  He is wary of women who find his wallet more attractive than his good looks.

Caroline reconnects with the life she had and friends from long ago. Mike steps out of her teenage dreams into her life again, looking more handsome and tempting than ever. She knew who he was then…but who is he now?

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Review: Duty Calls

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Title: 

Duty Calls

Author: 

Sherry Gloag

Release Date:

February 11, 2011

Publisher:

Black Opal Books

Word Count:

approx. 62,000

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Black Opal Books

All Romance

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Author's Website:

www. sherrygloag.com/

  

Description:  

She’d saved his life… 

Rafe Hawk refuses to accept the inheritance, of a large English estate, and the title that goes with it, after his birth father’s death because the man chose duty over the woman he loved and their son.

So when he finds himself temporarily living at Kinsale Hall, he’s not prepared to trust anyone associated with the place, including Trudi Delaney and her daughter.

So why, when he looks into their eyes, does he suddenly remember a woman who vanished without a trace after saving his life one stormy night ten years earlier?  

Now he could destroy hers.  

Instinct warns Trudi Delaney the arrival of the contemptuous American architect at Kinsale Hall will change her life forever. Especially when she discovers he spends so much of his time in areas of Kinsale Hall off-limits to visitors.

Eleven years after escaping from her psychotic husband with a stranger, she’s still plagued by nightmares of events she can’t remember. Events such as, who fathered her beautiful daughter?

Now, more than a decade later, she is confronted by another stranger. Will this one destroy everything she holds dear?

Laura’s Review:

Review: The Wrong Target

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Title: 

The Wrong Target

Author: 

Sherry Gloag

Release Date:

January 2011

Publisher:

eTreasures Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 15,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

www. sherrygloag.com/

Description:  

Headmistress, Tina Blackberry and businessman, Ryan Thomas can't control events after Ryan's daughter steals his coveted golden arrow and takes it to school. But put Cupid on the job and nothing can go wrong—or can it?

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