Historical Romances, YA Fantasy, & a RITA Nominee

A Kiss for Lady Mary

Ella Quinn’s bachelors do as they like and take what they want. But when the objects of their desire are bold, beautiful women, the rules of the game always seem to change…

Handsome, charming, and heir to a powerful Viscount, Christopher “Kit” Featherton is everything a woman could want—except interested in marriage. So when he hears that someone on his estate near the Scottish border is claiming to be his wife, Kit sets off to investigate.

Since her parents’ death, Lady Mary Tolliver has been hounded by her cousin, a fortune-hunting fool after her inheritance. Refusing to settle for anything less than love, Mary escapes to the isolated estate of rakish bachelor, Kit Featherton. Knowing he prefers Court to the country, she believes she will be safe. But when Kit unexpectedly returns, her pretend marriage begins to feel seductively real…

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Reign of Shadows

Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok’s lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna’s survival depends on the world believing she is dead.

But that doesn’t stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to him despite the risk. When the tower is attacked, Luna and Fowler escape together. But this world of darkness is more treacherous than Luna ever realized.

With every threat stacked against them, Luna and Fowler find solace in each other. But with secrets still unspoken between them, falling in love might be their most dangerous journey yet.

With lush writing and a star–crossed romance, Reign of Shadows is Sophie Jordan at her best.

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The Second Chance Cafe

Growing up, Kaylie Flynn was shuffled from foster home to foster home before being welcomed into Winton and May Wise’s family. It was May who taught Kaylie the comfort of home, and the healing power of baking the perfect brownie. Years later, May leaves Kaylie the money she needs to open her own café in the charming Victorian house they once shared. Now back in Hope Springs, Kaylie’s determined to finally make all her dreams a reality—and unearth answers to lingering questions about her past.

Soon, however, Kaylie’s carefully laid plans take an unexpected turn. The house needs far more work than she realized, and Tennessee Keller, the carpenter Kaylie hires, is proving to be a very handsome and very unneeded distraction from her quest to uncover the truth about her parents. When a crisis threatens to destroy everything she’s worked so hard to build, Kaylie must decide where her heart lies: with the ghosts of her past or the love and promise of her future.

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Tangled

In this boxed set, four exceptional women tangle with four stubborn men to bring you four great loves in four riveting reads!

TANGLED: Four full-length novels of passion and redemption by USA Today, Barnes & Noble and Amazon bestselling authors. In each story, each of these women had the courage to face her fears and build a life nobody thought possible. And in each story, a man gained her trust and nearly tore her dream to shreds. Yet out of the wreckage came a love each woman thought she’d never know.

MORE THAN WILLING by Laura Landon. Lady Margaret Bradford believes she must save the family brewery her father nearly destroyed, not knowing that he’d already lost it to the Earl of Camden in a card game the night he died. Now the brewery belongs to the earl’s second son, Grayson Delaney, a man who, in his own eyes, is beyond redemption. But working incognito in the brewery gives Grayson a new respect for good, hard labor. And a startling passion for a woman he should never have tangled with.

HANNAH’S VOW by Pam Crooks. Hannah grew up on the wrong side of the law, daughter of a master thief and student to his trade. But when he died at the hands of an angry mob, she fled to a monastery to escape the world and her sins. Quinn was betrayed by his brother and sentenced to a life in prison. Only the thirst for revenge kept him alive, revenge and the belief that one day he would escape. When Quinn’s path becomes entangled with Hannah’s, the two discover they must run for their lives to survive their pasts. And in the journey, they find truth . . . and an unlikely love.

SAINT OR SINNER by Cheryl St. John. In this heartwarming tale of hope and redemption, Joshua McBride returns from the war a changed man, ready to put down roots and plant his feet in the community. Prim and uptight Miss Adelaide Stapleton, leader of the Dorcas Society, doesn’t believe he’s changed─people are never what they seem. But she has plenty of secrets of her own─among them the inescapable fact that Joshua sets her heart to pounding and makes her long for his disturbing kisses. How long can she keep her own tangled past hidden─and resist temptation?

THE DEVIL’S DIME by Bailey Bristol. New York City 1896. The tattered blue folder that was handed to Jess Pepper his first week on the job bulged with reports of violent crimes against women. They were brutal crimes, by a fellow who was never caught, because each time, just as the young woman felt certain she drew her last breath, a man stepped from the shadows. And saved her. Now, twenty years later, the crudely lettered words penciled on the folder’s cover grabbed Jess and wouldn’t let go. The Samaritan Files. Twenty women had survived those crimes two decades ago, because of one good man. One good Samaritan. Who was he? And why hadn’t the city thanked him?

Addie Magee found a great deal more than she anticipated when she brought her violin to New York City. She found a group of young women ready to follow her lead into a promising career as the Avalon Strings. She found the father she hadn’t seen for sixteen years. And the young man to whom she was losing her heart threatened to ruin it all. Now Addie is abducted, her father is about to be executed, and an evil man’s vengeance is unleashed, all because of Jess’s reporting. And only Jess can untangle the mess and save them.

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