UnCover Mondays on The Ranch!!! This feature is only to highlight authors–not to sell books (though if you see one you want to buy I’m sure the authors won’t mind  ). Enjoy this weeks’ covers to ogle and explore. If there is one provided, you can follow the artist links by clicking each book cover that has an artist linked to learn more about the amazing creators of these beautiful covers. I think they deserve fair mention since they helped create the book! As always, click the author website links to find out more about them. Be sure to return on alternate Mondays for some amazing banners and video trailers by authors!

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Title: Kiss of Death

Author: The late Sharon Donovan

Website: www.sharondonovan.blogspot.co.uk/

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Cover Artist: Kim Mendoza

Release date: December 2012

Santa Must Die. The words in Camille Lafayette’s dream are a chilling prelude of events to come. She sees herself as the killer, and when the murder is actually committed, she becomes the prime suspect.

When handsome Detective Oliver Sharone turns up at her New Orleans family home, he is searching for answers. The evidence against her seems damning. An image captured on the victim’s camera resembles Camille, and the red feather mask worn by the murderer came from her shop.The instant chemistry between Camille and Oliver is an added complication, which grows deeper as they work together to discover the truth. It becomes a race against time to find the real murderer before he not only loses his heart completely, but the killer strikes again. And this time the victim could be Camille herself.

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Title:  Caller of Light

Website: www.tjshaw.com/

Genre:  Fantasy Romance

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Cover Artist:  Debbie Taylor 

Release Date: March 15^th, 2013

Carina McKay is an outsider. With one parent of royal blood, she’s not nobility, yet not a servant either. The only comfort in her mundane existence is her love of Critons, the large fire-breathing creatures that protect the border of her homeland. But her destiny changes forever the day she catches the eye of King Marek Duncan.

Marek’s heart is closed to love. After an arranged marriage withers to a bitter end, he dedicates his energy to protecting his kingdom. Yet he’s searching for something more—the Caller of Light, the one who summons Critons.

Carina’s beauty and willfulness intrigue Marek, and he’s determined to have her. When his enemies try to come between them, he discovers just how much he will endure to protect her. Together, they can unlock a love that binds their souls, but only if they find the strength to follow their hearts.

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Title: Dreams of Gold

Author: Linda Carroll-Bradd

Website: www.lindacarroll-bradd.com

Genre: Historical romance

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Cover Artist: Debbie Taylor

Release Date: May 1, 2013

Easterner Ciara Morrissey travels west to honor a sacred promise to her mother and locate her fortune-seeking father. Three years of acting as caretaker to her grandparents and mother until their deaths has created a thirst in Ciara to see what the wide world has to offer.

Sheriff Quinn Riley has been tracking the Irish charlatan who swindled half the population of Bull City, Wyoming. He’s determined to stick close to the opinionated woman who arrived on the runaway stagecoach. Within only a few hours, easterner Ciara Morrissey puts the town in an uproar by making inquires about his prime suspect.  He’s duty-bound to keep her safe, even when being close to the green-eyed beauty sets off a stampede in his heart.     

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Title: Weaver of Dreams

Website: www.brenda-sparks.com

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing

Cover Artist: Cristy Caughtie

Release Date: March 25, 2013

When guidance counselor Maggie O’Connell is plagued by terrible nightmares, she believes stress is the reason for her torment, but she couldn’t be more wrong. Unfortunately for Maggie, in the shadows of her dreams lurks a Dream Stalker who is addicted to the dark emotions produced by her night terrors.

Zane, a Dream Weaver from another dimension, visits Maggie in her nighttime fantasies to discover there is more than just a Dream Stalker after her. As the man of her fantasies becomes real, Maggie’s true nightmare begins.

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Title: Lost Honor

Website: www.loreenaugeri.com

Genre: historical romance

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Cover artist: Kim Mendoza 

Release Date: March 8, 2013

Captain Morgan Danvers sets sail to rescue his brother, kidnapped by pirates. Fearing he will become like his father who abandoned him, he has cut himself off from his emotions. Then a willful stowaway crashes into his life, awakening dormant feelings and firing his lust. Soon he finds his all-important honor threatened, for even though he is betrothed to another, he is drawn to her against his will.

Arianna Pemberton hides in a barrel she thinks will be loaded on her brother’s ship but lands on Morgan’s brig. Her father has forbidden her to sail, and this is her only course of action. Unwilling to allow a man to control her, she is determined to make her way as a seaman, a profession she knows and loves. But when Captain Danvers discovers her deception, he refuses to permit her to prove herself. As she struggles to convince him, unwanted passion emerges, jeopardizing her plans for independence.

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Title: Waves of Change (World Above Water – Book 1)

Website: www.nulliparaora.com

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Liquid Silver Books

Release Date: March 11, 2013

This exciting paranormal romance of danger, war, and the struggle to control two worlds, takes you beneath the waves of earth’s vast oceans and reveals a secret no mere human should know. As the battle rages, a very human woman becomes a pawn! Only one man, her unknown soul mate, can save her . . . or can he?

Water gives life, but under the control of a secret race of people, the most abundant element on earth can be a powerful weapon. The Leuk Ahnal have a unique connection to water—they can manipulate it, use it for communication, or even use it to take over another person’s body.

The five kingdoms of the Leuk Ahnal have remained hidden from mankind for millennia. A secret war has been raging between two of these kingdoms, the Ver-Rist Tokos and the Pa lel. The Ver-Rist Tokos king has his eyes set on taking over all the Leuk Ahnal, but the Pa lel stand in his way.

Hot on the trail of his enemy, a Pa lel enforcer discovers the love of his life. But there’s a problem. The Ver-Rist Tokos have an unexplained interest in her.

Water is power when two kingdoms fight for control. Is one man’s love enough to protect his woman from the threat beneath the surface?

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Title: Gambling on Love

Author: Nancy Fraser and Patti Shenberger

Website: www.nancyfraser.ca

And www.pattishenberger.com

Genre: Historical Romance

Publisher: Entangled Scandalous

Cover Artist: Libby Murphy

Release Date: May 20, 2013

Gambling on Love is the story of Felicity Beaumont, a rich man’s willful daughter with a heart of gold who wants more than anything to free her father’s illegally indentured workers.

When she devises a plan to move them north with the help of Jake McCade, owner of the gambling boat known as the River Maiden, she finds she’s run afoul of not only her father but of the man she’s duped into helping her.

While Jake and Felicity find themselves in agreement about helping the slaves, they are at odds over everything else, including their quickly escalating feelings for one another.

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Title:  The Fire Starter, Book 2 in Children of the King series

Website:  www.gloriaclover.com

Genre:  speculative romance

Publisher:  Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc.

Cover artist:  Jenifer Ranieri

Release date:  August, 2013

Three generations ago, wooded Celosia Island burned in a fire storm. Now the government keeps the island safe through limited trade and rare immigration. So it is unsettling to Princess

Amaryllis Filippopoulos to learn her father has invited an off-island prince into residence to translate some ancient scrolls and to marry her, his youngest daughter and heir to the throne.

Prince Valryan Molan has been sent to present to the people of Celosia the reality of the King, even though he is not readily perceived by the five senses or logic, the Stoic beliefs of Celosia’s ancestors. Valryan finds his mission hampered by his bride’s reluctance to marry and the immediate need to protect the people from illegal fire weapons.

But none of that compares to the unexpected fire storm Amaryllis ignites in his heart.

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Title:  Catch of the Day

Website:  www.petiemccarty.com

Genre:  Action-Adventure Romance

Publisher:  Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc.

Cover Artist:  Taria Reed

Release Date:  November 21, 2012

Cody Ryan gets all the action and adventure she hoped for on vacation when she’s partnered with Special Ops Coast Guard Captain Gage Connor in the all-male  Loon Lake tournament. The mayor of Loon makes up his own set of rules for the event. His knucklehead son plans to cheat to win the tournament, and the mayor’s daughter plans to cheat to win Gage Connor.

The excitement never quits, for drug dealers hid a stash of uncut diamonds on Gage’s borrowed bass boat as the exchange point for smuggled drugs. The Colombians want their diamonds back, and they’ll stoop to kidnapping to make it happen. 

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Title: Kalindra (Gatekeepers)

Author: Sondrae Bennett

Website: www.sondraebennett.com

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Lyrical Press, Inc.

Cover Artist: Renee Rocco

Release Date: May 6, 2013

What happens when a warrior woman meets her match?

Harpy Kalindra stumbles upon three human corpses who’ve mysteriously crossed from Earth into Outremer through the portal she guards. A human prisoner with two traveling vampires seems her only clue. She captures the man, and brings him back to her lair to discover the truth-not only why he came to Outremer, but how he got past the defenses of the gate. She expects answers. What she doesn’t expect is the intense attraction she feels for him…attraction he seems to share.

Cameron has a secret. For years, he’s used a shard of the gateway to cross worlds without detection-for his own gain. When the gatekeeper saves him from the clutches of vampires who want the shard, he learns she’s not just another monster from Outremer. He can’t resist his attraction to her human form, and before long he’s feeling more than simple lust for her.

Kalindra’s gateway comes under constant attack from creatures who want what Cameron has. The assaults are his fault, but he can’t hand over the shard, which is a family legacy. He must convince Kalindra he can help defend the gate…but how?

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