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Title: An Inconvenient Wife

Author: Constance Hussey

Weblink: www.constancehussey.com

Genre: Regency-era historical romance

Length: Novel

Heat Level: 2-Sensual

Publisher: Constance Hussey

Cover artist: Lex Valentine

Release date: January 15, 2016

In flight to England, Anne Mackenzie finds a temporary haven in Portugal. When she takes two children into her care, she never dreams that they will be the key to return her home. Lord Westcott can take her to England, and protect her from the dangerous man in her past, but the price is high—a loveless marriage. Unless Anne can thaw the heart of this compelling, aloof stranger, they may be irrevocably bound to a lifetime of unhappiness.

A recluse since the death of his wife and a crippling injury to his daughter, Lord Westcott reluctantly agrees to visit Portugal to search for a missing child. He never imagines he will return with two orphans and a wife—a wife whose dangerous secrets threaten his very life—and his long-frozen heart.

Chance threw them together, but only love can transform an inconvenient wife into his heart’s desire.

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Title: Dangerous Works

Author: Caroline Warfield

Weblink: www.carolinewarfield.com

Genre: Historical Romance

Length: Novel

Heat Level: 3- steamy

Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing

Cover artist: Soul Mate Publishing

Release date: September 2014

A little Greek is one thing; the art of love is another. Only one man ever tried to teach Lady Georgiana Hayden both. Now she has taken on a body of work; translating the poetry of the women of ancient Greece. If it takes a scandalous affair to teach her what she needs to complete her work, she will risk it. Major Andrew Mallet returns to Cambridge a battle scarred hero and would be scholar. His last encounter with Georgiana cost him eleven years of his life.  Determined to avoid her, he seeks work to heal his soul and make his scholar father proud. The work she offers risks his career, his peace of mind, and (worst of all) his heart. Can he protect himself from a woman who almost destroyed him? Does he want to?

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Title: If I Fail, A Jake Carrington Mystery

Author:  Marian Lanouette

Weblink: www.facebook.com/

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Genre: Romantic Suspense

Length: Novel

Heat Level: 4-hot

Publisher: LanHop Press

Cover artist: Harris Channing

Release date: March 2016

Jake Carrington is finding out the hard way that rules and regulations are in place for a reason. He dated a victim’s sister a couple of times during the investigation and now Chloe Wagner is the number one suspect in the murder. If convicted Jake could lose his rank or worst, his career. While trying to resolves his cases Jake is faced with a stalker. Someone is hunting him and his current girlfriend Mia Andrews.

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Title: Moonwitched.

(Guardians of Light Book 7)

Author: Renee Wildes

Weblink: www.twitter.com/ReneeWildes

Genre: Fantasy Romance

Length: Novel

Heat Level: 4- hot

Publisher: Samhain Publishing

Cover artist: Kanaxa

Release date: August 2015

He was bred for war. Her magic is only for peace. Together they must fight for love.

Weapons stolen, comrades dead, ship burned and sunk, Valkyn is rotting in Lord Zurvan’s grim dungeon, wondering if he will ever again see his sons. Rescue comes from an unexpected source—the human witch Zurvan sent to patch him up between beatings.

Mari can’t bring herself to let Valkyn die, never mind that the fearsome northern riever is the scourge of her homeland. Yet in him she finds an ally who could help restore the rightful boy king to the throne. And a man who reminds her body there’s life after widowhood.

Their first kiss unleashes pent-up passion she thought was long buried, clouding all the reasons they shouldn’t get involved. But the blood on Valkyn’s hands is anathema to Mari’s magic. If she dares open herself to him fully, he could destroy her.

Valkyn knows his heart has already surrendered to hers. When this quest is over, the real quest will be convincing her that polar opposites not only attract, they belong together—forever.

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Title: Risky Tide, Dolphin Shore Shifters Book 2

Author: CJ Matthew

Weblink: www.cjmatthew.com

Genre: Paranormal romance

Heat Level: Heat level 4

Publisher: All Huston Group, Inc.

Cover artist: Kim Killion

Release date: October 15, 2015

The Santa Barbara Channel holds a closely guarded secret…

They sent her in unprepared…

Katherine expected more than a welcome handshake and a name badge after surviving a shark attack before she arrived at SBW headquarters. But due to the recent violence she is sent along to join the Exchange Team without training to handle the midnight break-ins at an Orlando marine mammal park. Things turn bad when the memory of almost dying in the mouth of a Great White triggers a panic attack, forcing the team leader to suspend the exchange schedule.

He didn’t need an untrained team…

Peal is a SBW Team Leader with more problems than answers. A polluted lagoon, dead dolphins, and two new team members….one, a trigger-happy transfer he doesn’t trust, one, a dark-haired beauty he can’t stop thinking about. And as if that wasn’t enough, the mob doesn’t like Peal staking-out the lagoon they’ve been dumping medical waste in and sends in their hitman to stop the SBW Team.

Time is running out…

If Peal can manage to keep them alive, he still has to convince Katherine they can have more than just one passionate night together. But SBW might have something to say about that as any minute Katherine could be transferred, pulled out of Peal’s life forever.

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Title: Son of the Emperor,

The Last War: Bk #2

Author: Sylvie Grayson

Weblink: www.sylviegrayson.com

Genre: Sci fi/ Fantasy/Romantic suspense

Heat Level:  3 1/2

Publisher: Great Western Publishing

Cover artist: Steven Novak

Release date: October 2015

From the mud and danger of the open road to the welcoming arms of the Sanctuary, from attacks by the dispossessed army to the storms of the open sea, Son of the Emperor takes us on a wild ride into danger and on to the dream of freedom.

The Emperor is defeated but already unrest is growing in the north of Khandarken.

After Julianne Adjudicator’s father disappears, she seeks to escape the clutches of her vicious stepmother Zanata, and flees to the Sanctuary. This is the safest place for a woman in a hostile world of unrest and roving dispossessed. But when Julianne seeks asylum, it soon becomes clear all is not as it first appeared.

Then Abe Farmer arrives at the Sanctuary seeking medical help. Abe isn’t interested in taking a young woman with them, as he and his injured bodyguard struggle to return to the Southern Territory. Yet when he discovers her fate if she stays, he finds he has no choice.

But the journey becomes more dangerous as they encounter the army of the New Emperor. Caught in the middle of a firefight, they flee toward the Catastrophic Ocean. Can Abe keep her safe till they reach home?

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Title: Spirit Ridge

Author: L. A. Kelley

Weblink: www.facebook.com/

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Genre: Paranormal Western

Length: Novel

Heat Level: 1- sweet- sensual kissing only

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Cover artist: Kristian Norris

Release date:  May 25, 2016

A dark shadow rises.

San Francisco in 1885 was a dangerous place for those who crossed Colin Doyle. To Nob Hill elite he was a successful businessman. To the underbelly of San Francisco he was The Mick, a criminal mastermind ruling from the shadows. If a buyer’s tastes ran to opium, a whore, or a politician, The Mick could name a price. No one who betrayed him ever escaped the city alive.

Until now.

Nell Bishop is a fearless investigative reporter for the San Francisco Dispatch. She’s on the run to the Arizona Territory with the one witness who can expose Doyle’s corrupt empire and stop the plan to extend his evil dominion to the West.

Marshal Sam Tanner of Spirit Ridge in the Arizona Territory fought the visions sent by his Apache blood. They always foretold a death he couldn’t prevent. Then Sam dreamed of the coyote with golden brown eyes who warned of a black shadow spreading evil across the land. Did the message call him to help the beautiful woman who stepped off the stagecoach? Can Sam and Nell elude the mysterious dark riders who dog their trail or will the next vision mean death for both of them?

Adventure, romance, humor, and the call of Apache spirits weave together a Wild West adventure where either murder or justice can come at the twitch of a trigger finger.

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