Hey-Ho cover oglers! To satisfy your stare reflex urges–here’s October’s awesome cover art and the super authors, publishers and artists who made them possible for you to gaze upon this month. It would be great if you leave a comment letting everyone know what you like (or don’t like) about them and maybe even check out a few author links to meet those behind the books. Or just say hi. Don’t forget to tell your friends to stop by so they can appreciate some greatness too!
UnCover Mondays on The Ranch!!! This feature is only to highlight the authors (though if you see one you want to buy I’m sure the authors won’t mind 😆 ). Enjoy this months’ covers to ogle and explore. If there is one provided, you can follow the artist links by clicking on the name, or if there’s an artist link provided, 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 covers for author websites to find out more. I wish everyone a fabulous new year in 2014!
I’ve added a heat level rating for covers, one through five scale, for your benefit. If there’s anything else you’d like to know about covers revealed here, please don’t hesitate to let me know. You can leave it either in a comment or by my contact page https://calisarhose.com/say-hey/ with what you’d like to know. 🙂
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Title: Ascension- The Demon Hunters, #1
Author: A.S. Fenichel
Weblink: www.asfenichel.net
Genre: Historical/Paranormal
Heat Level:
Publisher: Lyrical Press/Kensington Books
Cover artist: April Martinez
Release date: October 6, 2014
When demons threaten London, Lady Belinda answers the call.
Lord Gabriel Thurston returns home from war to find his fiancée is not the sweet young girl he left behind. She’s grown into a mysterious woman who guards her dark secrets well. When he sees her sneaking away from a ball, he’s convinced it’s for a lover’s rendezvous. Following her to London’s slums, Gabriel watches in horror as his fiancée ruthlessly slays a man.
Lady Belinda Carlisle’s only concern was her dress for the next ball—until demons nearly killed her and changed everything. A lady by day, and a demon hunter by night, she knows where her duty lies. Ending her betrothal is the best way to protect Gabriel from death by a demon’s hand.
Gabriel soon realizes, like him, Belinda has been fighting for her country. He joins in the fight, determined to show her that their love can endure, stronger than ever.
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Title: Cherished Moments
Author: Mickie Sherwood
Weblink: www.mickiesherwood.com/blog
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Heat Level: 1 – Sweet
Publisher: Topaz Publishing
Cover artist: Dawne Dominque
Release date: April 18, 2014
Senator Jordan Dupré is reluctant to revisit her past. That thought crumbles at the sight of Deacon Burke. His commanding presence and charming smile transports her back to her youth. Back then, she kissed, loved, lied, and left him—taking a life-changing secret with her.
Scorned by Jordan’s dishonesty, Deke swears he never wants to see her lying face again. However, his heart knows better, and he never stops thinking of her. When Jordan’s husband is killed, Deke is summoned to the Senator’s aid, by an unlikely source—Unfortunately, he brings a secret of his own.
Will secrets from their past reignite their cherished moments?
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Title: Cowboy Up
Author: Boxed Set-Allison Merritt,
Vickie Taylor, Leslie Garcia,
Melissa Keir, Autumn Piper,
Sara Walter Ellwood, D’Ann Lindun
Weblink: www.facebook.com/cowboyupboxedset
Genre: Contemporary Western Romance
Heat Level: 2-3- sensual-steamy
Publisher: The authors
Cover artist: Hot Damn Designs
Release date: September 8, 2014
Seven men as tough as the west… Seven women who know how to COWBOY UP.
Always, Cowboy by Allison Merritt—The past is better left behind, unless it offers a brighter future.
Cowboys Don’t Cry by Vicki Taylor—A broken cowboy with nothing left to lose…except his heart.
A Cowboy’s Heart by Leslie Garcia—Teenage lovers torn apart by betrayal. Have seventeen years changed everything—or nothing?
The Heartsong Cowboy by Melissa Keir—Can two people, one horse and the power of love cure a little girl?
Cowboy Trouble by Autumn Piper—She’s decided to make some bad choices this weekend.
Chasing a Cowboy by Sara Walter Ellwood—He’s running from heartbreak. She’s chasing after love… Their hearts will never be the same.
Cowboy Bred, Cowboy Born by D’Ann Lindun—Freedom or family? Only love can make the choice.
*A boxed set of seven romantic novellas by seven award-winning authors experienced with writing about the men of the West.
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Title: Exposed To Passion, The Five Senses Series, Book #3
Author: Gemma Brocato
Weblink: www.facebook.com/gemma.brocato?ref=hl
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Heat Level: 3-Steamy
Publisher: Kensington/Lyrical Press
Cover artist: Renee Rocco
Release date: October 20, 2014
They walked through the shadows individually. Will they emerge into the light together?
Leading a vagabond life as a curator for a traveling photography exhibit translates to a lot of bad days for Rikki Salerno. But her trouble doubles when a careless high school student shoves her into a marsh. Being rescued by teacher Sam Kerrigan should have made things better, but Rikki’s inability to confess her true identity casts a shadow over their budding affair.
When Sam refuses an overly aggressive parent’s marriage proposal, she’s determined to ruin him. Not only does she doctor photos to make it look like Sam’s behaved inappropriately in front of students, she hacks the foundation website to reveal Rikki’s true identity. Faster than the blink of a shutter, Rikki’s focus changes from pursuing her full-color future to the black and white necessity of clearing Sam’s name.
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Title: Highlander’s Charm
Author: Joanne Wadsworth
Weblink: www.joannewadsworth.com/
Genre: Historical Romance
Heat Level: 3- steamy
Cover Artist: Joanne Wadsworth
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Traveling through time…for a Highlander.
Lila MacIan makes a wish upon a sixteenth century charm gifted to her by her missing grandmother, a wish that sends her traveling back into the past and to a warrior her charm has bound her to. With a vicious feud raging between the clans, she withholds her true identity from him, except he’s seen her grandmother and now she must do whatever it takes to find her.
Highland warrior Calum MacLean is bound to a woman who holds an identical charm to his. Visions assail him, of the two of them intimately together, and as Lila escapes him for the enemy’s land, his soul demands he protect and aid her.
Once Lila is reunited with her grandmother, she discovers she was born in the past to the MacIan laird, Calum’s arch enemy. Can she find a way to save the man her soul cries out for…set her past to rights and remain in her true time?
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Title: Must Love Breeches, Must Love Series, #1
Author: Angela Quarles
Weblink: www.angelaquarles.com/
Genre: Time Travel Romance
Heat Level: 3-steamy
Publisher: Angela Quarles
Cover artist: Kim Killion
Release date: September 3, 2014
She’s finally met the man of her dreams. There’s only one problem: he lives in a different century.
HOW FAR WOULD YOU TRAVEL FOR LOVE?
A mysterious artifact zaps Isabelle Rochon to pre-Victorian England, but before she understands the card case’s significance a thief steals it. Now she must find the artifact, navigate the pitfalls of a stiffly polite London, keep her time-traveling origins a secret, and resist her growing attraction to Lord Montagu, the Vicious Viscount so hot, he curls her toes.
To Lord Montagu nothing makes more sense than keeping his distance from the strange but lovely Colonial. However, when his scheme for revenge reaches a stalemate, he convinces Isabelle to masquerade as his fiancée. What he did not bargain on is being drawn to her intellectually as well as physically.
Lord Montagu’s now constant presence overthrows her equilibrium and her common sense. Isabelle thought all she wanted was to return home, but as passion flares between them, she must decide when her true home—as well as her heart—lies.
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Title: My Name Is A’yen, A’yen’s Legacy, #1
Author: Rachel Leigh Smith
Weblink: www.rachelleighsmith.com
Genre: Scifi romance
Heat Level: 2-sensual
Publisher: Rachel L. Smith
Cover artist: Laura Gordon
Release date: September 12, 2014
They’ve taken everything from him. Except his name.
The Loks Mé have been slaves for so long, freedom is a distant myth A’yen Mesu no longer believes. A year in holding, because of his master’s murder, has sucked the life from him. Archaeologist Farran Hart buys him to protect her on an expedition to the Rim, the last unexplored quadrant.
Farran believes the Loks Mé once lived on the Rim and is determined to prove it. And win A’yen’s trust. But she’s a breeder’s daughter and can’t be trusted.
Hidden rooms, information caches and messages from a long-dead king change A’yen’s mind about her importance. When she’s threatened he offers himself in exchange, and lands on the Association’s radar. The truth must be told. Even if it costs him his heart.
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Title: The Marquesa’s Necklace, Oak Grove Mysteries I
Author: P.J. MacLayne
Weblink: www.pjmaclayne.blogspot.com/
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Heat Level: 2 flames
Publisher: P.J. MacLayne.
Cover artist: K.M. Guth
Release date: July 1, 2014
Harmony Duprie enjoyed her well-ordered life in the quiet little town of Oak Grove—until her arrest for drug trafficking. Cleared of all charges, she wants nothing more than to return to the uneventful lifestyle of a historical researcher she once savored.
But when her beloved old car “George” is stolen and explodes into a ball of flames, it sets off a series of events that throws her plans into turmoil. Toss in a police detective that may or may not be interested in her, an attractive but mysterious stranger on her trail, and an ex-boyfriend doing time, and Harmony’s life freefalls into a downward spiral of chaos.
Now she has to use her research skills to figure out who is behind the sinister incidents plaguing her, and why. And she better take it seriously, like her life depends upon finding the right answers.
Because it might.
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Title: Undiscovered Angel, Earthbound, #1
Author: Sharon Saracino
Weblink: www.sharonsaracino.com
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Heat Level: 3-4- steamy/hot
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Cover artist: Tamra Westbury
Release date: August 22, 2014
Empath Katrina Shepard spends most of her time alone, preferring solitude to the constant press of the pain and emotion of others. When she meets publishing tycoon Kassian McAllister at a party she finds herself intrigued. He is the first man she can’t read. Maybe she isn’t the only one with strange psychic powers. An Earthbound Angel, Kassian has spent the better part of a century hunting Jack the Ripper. His personal quest for vengeance has locked his heart and emotions behind a tightly guarded door. But Kat reawakens the emotions he thought long dead. As they grow closer they both learn truths about themselves and see a chance for love. But Jack the Ripper still roams the Earth and Kat has become the ideal target. Will Kassian finally have his revenge or will he lose yet another woman he loves?
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Title: Willow Smoke, Riders Up, #3
Author: Adriana Kraft
Weblink: www.adrianakraft.com
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Heat Level: 3-steamy flames
Publisher: B&B Publishing
Cover artist: Rebecca Poole
Release date: September 1, 2014
When the chips are down, there’s nobody there.
Willowy blond Daisy Matthews has survived the Chicago streets with this mantra but is unprepared for the much older Nick Underwood’s urgent pursuit. The wealthy businessman receives a thoroughbred in payment for a bad debt and is thrust into Daisy’s world. She teaches him about horse racing; he teaches her about love. When Daisy’s seamy brother-in-law threatens Nick’s safety, she doggedly tries to stop him by herself, but flees to the familiar streets when he attacks. Can Nick find her in time – and if he does, will she still want him?
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