tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68797353922680267062024-03-07T21:17:18.323-08:00The Romantic PostHarriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.comBlogger3711125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-80145211387644942972014-11-05T11:46:00.002-08:002014-11-05T11:46:48.527-08:00Cowboy For Hire-Marie Ferrarella<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">With a deep need for her dad’s approval and representing her
family’s firm, Carmichael Construction Corporation, Constance Carmichael arrives
in Forever, Texas to supervise the building of a hotel. When Constance sees the quality work done to a
ranch house, she takes a risk and hires the lead Finn Murphy as foreman of the hotel
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Constance and Finn are attracted to each other, but the big city
easterner and the small town local also share a reluctance to act on their
feelings. As their respect and
admiration grow while working together on the hotel construction, they begin to
fall in love; but she is not a Texas Forever person and he is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">The eleventh return to Forever, the fine contemporary romance focuses on
the middle Murphy brother (see </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Her Forever Cowboy for his brother Brett’s tale; a third
sibling to follow as the book twelve lead).
The protagonists are a likable pair whose relationship changes from
boss-employee to loving equals (with the right steps in between) while the
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-83660261765673218922014-10-30T12:18:00.002-07:002014-10-30T12:18:03.912-07:00‘Tis The Season-Robyn Carr <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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only to find eight newborn puppies underneath it. Obviously abandoned, Annie brings
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Eve alone at home, her Uncle Nathanial and his fiancée Annie insist she
accompany them to Jack’s Bar. UCLA
Orthopedic resident Drew Foley and Sunny meet at the bar; whereas she rejects
his attempts to get to know each other, he refuses to quit trying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="a-size-large"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Backward Glance.” In Durango five years have passed since </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">John last saw his beloved Leigh, but every time he drives
passed her mom Jess’ house he looks to see if she is visiting. Jess tells John she has a bad ticker but is not
seeing the doctor. Worried about her
mom’s health, Leigh, accompanied by her four year old twins (Mitch and Ty),
returns home. When John and Leigh meet,
they have a fight over who was at fault; as they reconcile another argument may
destroy their love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first two tales are warm reprints of Virgin
River novellas though the leads of Midnight Confessions seem unlikely to overcome
their respective failed relationships as the prime icon etched in their
respective brains. Backward Glance is a
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-65501631867772174172014-10-28T12:06:00.002-07:002014-10-28T12:06:28.849-07:00The Mighty Quinns: Ryan-Kate Hoffmann <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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to keep his soon to be star Hollywood actress Serena Hightower out of trouble
until she marries; as bad publicity just before the release of a blockbuster
movie could prove devastating. The New
Zealander assumes his latest gig will be R&R while his brother Rogan says
Ryan is lucky as a baby-sitter to five hens including the soon to be bride Hollywood
actress Serena Hightower at her bachelorette party in vacation paradise Fiji. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trouble. He wants her and she feels the
same way; but he will not poach on someone else’s woman. That changes when he learns Serena plans to
end her engagement to Ben Thayer. They
head to New Zealand to determine whether they can make it at the risk of her
career and for him to tell his family what he desires in life before he and his
two brothers accompanied by their father climb Mt. Everest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The third <span style="background: white;">New Zealand branch of the
</span>Mighty Quinns (see Rogan and Malcom) is an enjoyable contemporary
romance as a Hollywood starlet and a rugged outdoor guide fall in love. The two leads mature as their relationship
intensifies with each learning the meanings of family and commitment. There will not be a dry eye with the climax
at the top of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-64747492680492008782014-10-27T11:45:00.002-07:002014-10-27T11:45:25.265-07:00Oh, Naughty Night!-Leslie Kelly <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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settles down in Washington. Her first
month in D.C. was getting used to her job and the city. Now, Lulu is on the prowl for a superman (in
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over a hunk when she recognizes him as journalist Chaz Browning; whom she has
not seen since high school, almost a decade ago. She is stunned that the scrawny nerd she
tortured when they were teenage enemies has become a stud. Chaz fails to recognize Lulu as they enjoy
the night together before she vanishes. Chaz
and Lulu meet as neighbors, but he fails to realize his teen queen of mean
adversary is the Halloween beauty he craves and she omits informing him that
she is the star of his wet dreams; confusing him further is his desire to make
it with Lulu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The premise is terrific with one protagonist aware and the other
not; while the execution is excellent. Oh,
Naughty Night! is a heated jovial contemporary made stronger by some of the
ways Lulu irritated besieged Chaz as youngsters. Readers will toast Leslie Kelly with a Capri
Sun for this beguiling blazing romance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-76887224300250275192014-10-26T11:57:00.002-07:002014-10-26T11:57:45.189-07:00A Christmas Celebration-Nancy Robards Thompson <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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car crash, Celebration Memorial Hospital Chief of Staff Dr. Cullen Dunlevy takes
in their four young mourning children (ranging in age from five to ten). Rather than let the Texas Department of
Family and Protective Services divide the quartet, Cullen plans to keep them
with him until he finds a suitable family who will raise the fearsome
foursome. However, he works sixteen hour
days and his housekeeper quits as the growing blue foam was the last straw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">After explaining to Lily Palmer the kids act out of grief and she
replies they seek attention; he hires the second grade schoolteacher as their
nanny not just because he is desperate, which he is, but he sees how gently she
reached out to the youngest Hannah through Franklin the dog. He also admires how well Lily deals with the
oldest Megan, the only boy George and the second youngest Bridge. As the six bonds into a warm family, “Uncle”
Cullen struggles with his desires to adopt the kids while falling in love with
the nanny because he is married to his job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bride, Celebration’s Family and Celebration’s Baby) is an uplifting Yuletide
family drama. The lead couple is a nice
pairing whose plans are nuked by the needy grieving youngsters. With a nod to Nanny McPhee (sans the magic
except inside the hearts of all of them) and mindful of W.C. Fields’
admonition: "Never work with animals or children” the troubled kids steal
the show from the adults.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-60687809884127116122014-10-26T11:56:00.005-07:002014-10-26T11:56:57.734-07:00Boneyard Ridge-Paula Graves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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event planner Susannah Marsh hosts a law enforcement conference. However, unbeknownst to Susannah, the Blue
Ridge Infantry anti-authority fanatics have a deadly plan for the attendees;
but first must rid themselves of Marsh in order to deploy their scheme. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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maintenance man for three months to get inside the militia. He informs his Gates superior Alexander Quinn
that the assault starts tonight; the former CIA agent tells the Army veteran
with a bad leg and anger management issues he needs to go it alone until
reinforcements can arrive. Thus he becomes
Susannah’s mule carrying the reluctant planner away from those shooting at
her. However she also conceals a dark
deadly secret involving the local crime family who also pursues Susannah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(see Crybaby Falls and Dead Man Curve) is a high-octane thriller starring two
seemingly opposites; though scratch the heroine’s present persona to her past
reveals how similar the pair really is.
Fast-paced, readers will root for the protagonists as they try to stay
alive while a couple of hordes target the perfectly polished planner and guilt
by protective association the medically retired sergeant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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at a nursing home. When her position is
abolished and Ruth let go due to budget cuts, she is despondent because she
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Rodes’ six horrible children, she recommends he hires Ruth to take care of his kids
whose ages range from four to nine. Initially Ruth feels overwhelmed but
sympathetic towards her six motherless wards since she lost her parents as a
young child. The preadolescents slowly
warm up to her cheerful enthusiasm; but perhaps not as much as their concerned
father who keeps his distance out of guilt and memory of his late wife, and for
the sake of his brood though attracted to his new employee. However, when Ruth is offered her former
position, she feels pulled in two directions as she loves and adores Martin and
his munchkins while they cherish her for bringing a Ray of Light back into
their grieving lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cast includes returnees from previous novels </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(see Eventide and Daybreak)</span><span class="a-size-large"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">;
while the two nurturing adults try to help the six troubled children as they
struggle to accept being without their beloved mother. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shelley Shepard Gray authors
a delightful holiday story that needs a miracle delivered by six impish elves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-60431738690426926092014-10-25T12:39:00.002-07:002014-10-25T12:39:24.352-07:00The Hunk Next Door-Debra Webb and Regan Black<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Belclare, Maryland Police Chief Abigail Jensen led her team in a
recent bust of a drug ring that funneled profits to a terrorist group. Believing the intrepid cop, who makes to
clear her town is and will remain drug-free, is a retaliation target, <span style="background: white;">CIA Specialists Director Thomas Casey (see Colby
Agency: The Specialists - Bridal Armor by Debra Webb) assigns agent </span>Riley
O’Brien to go undercover in order to protect Abigail from an unknown threat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Riley poses as a handyman who moves in next door to the chief. The cop and the undercover cop are attracted
to each other, but he especially knows the futility in a relationship between
them as the protocol of don’t get romantically involved with the protected
sounds alarms in his head that fight his heart (and other body parts). At the same time Belclare Historical Society
President Martin Fillmore objects to Jensen’s additional security measures that
he believes will ruin the annual Christmas event while she insists will save it
from a tragedy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Specialists:
Heroes Next Door is a thrilling spin off from Ms. Webb’s </span><span style="background: white;">Colby Agency: The Specialists series (see Would-Be
Christmas Wedding and Ready, Aim…I Do!).
The storyline starts slow, but accelerates towards the middle until the
climatic confrontation with a villain that readers will know long before the
dynamic protagonists realize seemingly too late. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-90469910824030741172014-10-20T11:53:00.001-07:002014-10-20T11:53:27.265-07:00The Agent’s Surrender-Kimberly Van Meter <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary CIA special
skills officer Holden Archangelo rejects agent Jane Fallon’s contention that his
dead twin brother Miko betrayed his country and murdered several people
including his superior at the Department of Informational Development. Holden insists his sibling would never commit
treason or suicide. He claims to his Military Affairs Department boss Reed
Harris that he has new evidence, but his supervisor says the matter is
closed. After Holden storms out, Jane
and Reed chat and he agrees to give her one week with Archangelo as her
sidekick to follow his alleged lead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As they investigate the seemingly <em><span style="background: white; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">open</span></em><span style="background: white;">-and-<em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">shut case</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> that
affirms Miko’s guilt, the pair finds an oddity that fails to fit the
narrative. As the two bickering agents
fall in love, family matters drive each of them, but with radically different
motives. While the clock ticks, an
unknown adversary observes their progress. </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The lead pairing make for an enjoyable romantic suspense mostly
due to Jane proving to be as tough, courageous and mouthy sarcastically humorous,
if not more so, as her male partner is. Following
up on Moving Target and The Sniper, the action-packed inquiry grips the audience
from the moment Harris teams them up and never lets up until the heroine mocks
her beloved for entertaining another female in his apartment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-33960695719519920602014-10-19T11:25:00.002-07:002014-10-19T11:25:19.288-07:00The Daughter Of Highland Hall-Carrie Turansky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1912, sponsored by her <span style="background: white;">autocratic
Aunt Louisa, eighteen year old debutante </span>Katherine Ramsey comes to London
to reside with her relative. Also living
in Louisa’s home is the brother of Kate’s last governess, medical student Jonathan
Foster. He soon must decide between
being a doctor in India as expected of a missionary’s son and helping the
squalid in London. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kate initially enjoys her debut until a scandal devastates the
equilibrium of her upper class world. She
begins to question the aristocracy’s ethics and her family’s morality. Also Kate is attracted to Jonathan and extremely
interested by the work he is doing to help the impoverished, which Aunt Louisa
insists makes him unacceptable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is an enjoyable leisurely-paced inspirational historical. A family affair since readers met much of the
cast including the leads in <em><span style="background: white; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Governess of Highland Hall (Jonathan’s sister
and orphaned Kate’s guardian were the protagonists). With a 360 degree look at pre WWI poverty
through the poor and the filters of the aristocracy, the servants and the
missionary doctor enrich an engaging Upstairs-Downstairs Edwardian.<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-86668659426722346622014-10-10T11:57:00.002-07:002014-10-10T11:57:04.095-07:00The Last Breath-Kimberly Belle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1994 Rogersville, Tennessee, Ray Andrews is convicted of
murdering his second wife Ella Mae. Ray’s
family and neighbors react with horror to the crime of passion, but soon the
residents of the Appalachian small-town somewhat moved on with their lives;
while Ray went to prison and his daughter Gia fled Eastern Tennessee to become
a globetrotting humanitarian aid worker at disaster sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sixteen years later, an ailing Ray leaves prison wearing an
electronic monitoring device to die in his home. While many including his two other adult
children (Lexi and Bo) object to his humane release and some actively protest
near the house, Gia returns to Rogersville to help him in his final weeks. However, she also has nagging doubts about
her father murdering her stepmother, but her efforts to learn what happened on
that fatal night are stonewalled even by Ray and his three-piece suit lawyer relative
Uncle Cal. Her only solace is the
neighbor Jake the bartender. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Last Breath is a taut twisting romantic suspense as the truth
may not set Gia free. The vivid setting
and the support cast (especially the family) enhance the tension. The present day Gia inquiry and the Ella Mae
1994 final days are terrific subplots; while the well-written Jake romance
distracts from the otherwise superb family drama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-23427117956797616982014-10-07T11:51:00.002-07:002014-10-07T11:51:13.242-07:00The Betrayed-Heather Graham <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hearing the accepting voice of <span style="background: white;">Richard
Highsmith, </span>FBI Krewe of Hunters New York branch Agent Aidan Mahoney abruptly
awakens to find no one in his room; but knowing his Westchester County friend
is dead. Soon afterward, Krewe boss
Jackson Crow assigns Aidan to help locals search for the missing Highsmith in
nearby Tarrytown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The police use Maureen Deauville and her
companion Rollo the wolfhound to assist them because they have a special knack
of locating missing people; usually after they died. In Sleepy Hollow, Mo and Rollo discover Richard’s
severed head on the top of a wooden headless horseman in front of the Headless
Horseman Hideaway Restaurant and Bar.
Richard arrives to join the inquiry that has become a homicide
investigation. As other gruesome murders
occur; Richard, Mo and Rollo team up with the adults reluctantly falling in
love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The latest Krewe of Hunters urban fantasy police procedural (see
The Cursed and The Hexed) is an entertaining suspense due more to a diabolical
serial killer than the lead trio especially since the romance seems somewhat
late and abrupt. The thrilling hunt for
a deadly psychopath in Washington Irving’s Westchester makes this overall a
good Krewe novel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-33521198070023445822014-10-06T11:51:00.000-07:002014-10-06T11:51:08.567-07:00A Love Undone: An Amish Novel of Shattered Dreams and God's Unfailing Grace-Cindy Woodsmall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cindy Woodsmall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Winter Valley, Pennsylvania, <span style="background: white;">Old
Order Amish </span>Jolene Keim looks forward to marrying Van Beiler in three
weeks though moving to Ohio means leaving behind her beloved family. However, instead of wedding bells, Jolene and
her siblings bury their parents who die in an accident. Her engagement over and though only nineteen,
as the oldest Jolene raises her younger brothers and sisters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sacrifice, but also wonders what her life would have been like married to
Van. When she meets rescue horse trainer
Andy Fisher, she thinks the widower is handsome and appreciates how caring he
is with his tweener son Tobias and the hurting steeds he works with. As they fall in love, Andy believes Jolene
knows his marital status forbids him from marrying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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charming Amish romance starring two nice responsible leads and solid secondary
characters. Although the storyline goes
as straight ahead as the Bonneville Salt Flats, subgenre fans will enjoy this contemporary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-1776357774142732502014-10-06T11:50:00.002-07:002014-10-06T11:50:07.722-07:00Together for Christmas-Debbie Macomber, Brenda Novak, Sheila Roberts and RaeAnne Thayne<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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RaeAnne Thayne</span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“5-B Poppy Lane” by Debbie Macomber. In Cedar Cove, Washington, Helen Shelton
thinks back five decades to WWII when she met her beloved late husband
Sam. Her granddaughter Ruth and her future
spouse USMC Sergeant Paul Gordon of Seattle began their relationship by exchanging
letters while he was deployed in Afghanistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“When We Touch” by Brenda Novak. In Whiskey Creek, California, Olivia Lucero
and Kyle Houseman are engaged until her sister Noelle insists she is pregnant. Urged by the siblings’ mother, Kyle hopes to
broker a reconciliation between the estranged sisters, but Olivia distrusts
Noelle not to go after her current boyfriend Brandon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Welcome to Icicle Falls” by Sheila Roberts. In 1969 in Icicle Falls, Washington, teenager
Muriel knows her father expects her to one day run Sweet Dreams, but she hopes
to be a writer instead. When she meets
Stephen Sterling, Muriel expands her life plan to include him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hartford’s daughter Ruby loves hearing the story of how her dad and Ashley
Barnes overcame their respective negative first impressions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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romances from each author’s popular ongoing series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-9824479610306414482014-09-30T12:20:00.003-07:002014-09-30T12:20:47.668-07:00In Your Dreams-Kristan Higgins <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Your Dreams <o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Manningsport, New York, Blue Heron head winemaker Jack Holland rescues
four teenagers from drowning after they wrecked their car. The townsfolk rightfully consider the
kindhearted Jack the hero of the Midwinter Miracle; but he remains traumatized
over the boy in that accident still in a coma. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kevin Bates’s wedding in Malibu. Friends
suggest she ask Jack to be her guest, which he agrees. In California, Emma feels overwhelmed and not
just because she is the groom’s ex; as her family resides nearby and she
believes she is the lone failure of Dr. and Dr. Neal. When she and Jack share a wonderful evening
of love, Emma doubts it is more than just a one-night tryst; as a cop can’t
compare to his former wife Hadley who demands a second chance with him. However she doesn’t know Jack; as well as she
thought as he wants much more than a SOCAL fling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The fourth Blue Heron romance (see Waiting On You, The Perfect
Match and The Best Man) is a charming contemporary starring two amiable
protagonists and ably supported by their families and other bicoastal locals. <cite>Kristan Higgins authors a warm droll drama as the self-doubter buries
her trepidations in Skittles and chocolate cake, and the PTSD sufferer struggles
with the accolades from his heroic act; neither know how to deal with falling
in love.<o:p></o:p></cite></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-46784151078361282502014-09-30T12:19:00.004-07:002014-09-30T12:19:44.054-07:00Jilted-Rachael Johns <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jilted <o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rachael Johns<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: </span></cite><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">9780373779369</span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">A decade ago in Hope Junction, Australia, Elenora Hughes jilted Flynn
Quartermaine at the altar to pursue an acting career. When her godmother Matilda breaks her ankle,
Ellie returns home after remaining in the big city as a successful soap opera
star for years to care for her beloved injured senior citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ellie and Flynn share in common two things: each fears a second
chance and each remains in love with the other.
The tabloids stalk the couple and other residents in the small western
town; local nurse Lauren Simpson deploys a plan to finally win Flynn’s heart;
and Ellie’s show producer pressures her to return to the set. However, as Mat reveals a secret and Ellie
finds joy in directing and teaching drama, she explains to the two people she
cherishes with all her heart why she left Hope behind ten years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jilted is an engaging second chance
Australian romance due to likable leads and a colorful local cast dealing with
the big city invaders. Although the
storyline goes as expected, Rachel Johns provides her audience with a pleasant HEA
Down Under contemporary.<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-39692739322129543462014-09-30T12:19:00.000-07:002014-09-30T12:19:00.786-07:00Return to Glory-Sara Arden<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sara Arden<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: </span></cite><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">9780373779307</span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Former SEAL Jack McConnell returns home to Glory, Kansas a broken
man. He sits in his dress whites and
pulls the trigger of a gun pointed at his head.
The click disappoints Jack as the chamber was empty. Jack’s BFF, GPD police officer Caleb Lewis,
arrives before the PTSD veteran continues with his Russian Roulette.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Caleb’s sister Betsy was a tweener, Jack saved her life. Since then he has been her beloved hero. Whereas he assumes he no longer is her idol, Betsy
knows she still loves him damaged goods and all; and will do anything to help
Jack heal from his emotional injuries.
Though he doubts she can reach through his darkness, Jack doesn’t know
Betsy; as she remains determined to save her hero from himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Return to Glory is an insightful contemporary romance that
provides a stunned audience with a timely realistic look at a suicidal vet
struggling with mental and physical war wounds, and the beloved woman (and
townsfolk) giving her all to rescue him.
Character-driven by traumatized Jack, this is not an easy read starting
with the opening haunting sequence. As
readers wonder if love will prove enough to save a life, Sara Arden brings
needed attention on the much higher rate than the civilian population of
suicides among returning veterans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-58465887975661330222014-09-25T12:13:00.000-07:002014-09-25T12:13:05.439-07:00Christmas At Thunder Horse Ranch-Elle James <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christmas At Thunder Horse Ranch<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Elle James<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harlequin Intrigue</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span class="bindingandrelease"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sep 16 2014</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, $5.50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: 9780373697922<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In North Dakota U.S. Customs and Border Protection interdiction agent
Dante Thunder Horse flies his copter to check out a farmer’s report that a snowmobile
illegally crossed from Canada. While
flying solo because his copilot has the flu, Dante knows this is the third
anniversary of the worst day in his life; his late fiancée Captain Samantha
Olson died on this date in Afghanistan.
He spots the snowmobile and watches in astonishment a man launch a
rocket propelled grenade at the helicopter.
Dante survives the fiery crash but his assassin fires shots at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">University of North Dakota Paleontology Professor Emma Jennings is
near the crash area searching for the skull of a T-Rex when she sees the
inferno. Emma rushes to the scene only
to witness a person on a snowmobile firing at recumbent man wearing only
thermal underwear. Heroically she
crashes into the shooter’s vehicle knocking away his gun. The assassin flees so Emma checks on the
wounded person who she recognizes. Dante
and Emma head to his Thunder Horse Ranch knowing her intervention places her in
peril.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is an entertaining romantic suspense with some gender bending
action as the academic saves their butts several times. Fast-paced throughout, <cite>Christmas At Thunder Horse Ranch is a fun thriller.<o:p></o:p></cite></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-28923200035457144602014-09-24T11:53:00.002-07:002014-09-24T11:53:29.739-07:00Texas Born-Diana Palmer <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Texas Born<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Diana Palmer<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harlequin Special Edition, </span><span class="bindingandrelease"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sep 16 2014</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, $5.50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: 9780373658411<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Comanche Wells, Texas, three weeks have passed since seventeen
year old Michelle Godfrey buried her father Alan next to her mother while his
second wife Roberta raged at the unnecessary cost. Irate Roberta dumped all of her late
husband’s personal items in a landfill while her stepdaughter was at school and
kept Michelle from attending church.
Roberta tries to sell her late spouse’s stamp collection, but Michelle
intervenes and the ethical collector refuses to complete the purchase. After slapping Michelle, Roberta still plans
to place the house on sale though the market is tanked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Michelle meets her kind but troubled neighbor veteran Gabriel
Brandon who tells her to stay calm and consider becoming an <em><span style="background: white; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">emancipated
minor</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span>but definitely not accept abuse. When someone kills Roberta, the police
suspect Michelle who had plenty of motives to murder her odious
stepmother. Gabriel looks after Michelle
as if she was his sibling Sara though his feelings for the teen are
unsisterly. Vowing patience until his
beloved is old enough to decide what and who she wants, Michelle threatens Gabriel’s
control as she may be seventeen but acts thirty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Once the villainess dies, this Long, Tall Texans
contemporary (see </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Desperado)</span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is
a pleasant sweet romance. The teen is forced
to be an old soul by family circumstances and the hero is willing to do whatever
she needs to allow her to grow up before making his case. Although Roberta is a caricature of
Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, this is a fine entry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-40884783354730516212014-09-19T12:31:00.000-07:002014-09-19T12:31:02.084-07:00This Good Man-Janice Kay Johnsonr<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This Good Man <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Janice Kay Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harlequin SuperRomance, <span class="grey3">Sep
2 2014</span>, $6.75<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: 9780373608683<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Filled with guilt, Family Violence Unit police captain Reid Sawyer
returns to the Spokane area when he learns he has a much younger teenage
half-brother Caleb. Reid assumes his
violent dad, who battered him and his mother including getting away with uxoricide,
would do likewise with his surly fifteen years offspring whose mom abandoned
him three years ago. Reid says he is
damaged so cannot take Caleb with him, but offers to place him with friends off
the grid until he turns eighteen. Reid
takes a position with the Angel Butte’s Police Department before taking a
battered Caleb to live with the couple Roger and Paula Hale who saved his life
decades ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">When social worker Anna Grant demands ABPD search for a thirteen
years old runaway, Reid intervenes and orders his officer to look for the
kid. Meanwhile, he and Anna are
attracted to each other, but though it could cost him his job, Reid conceals
from her where he hid Caleb in order to protect the kind Hale couple and to
keep his brother safe. He is unaware
that Anna’s traumatic childhood in the foster care system left her damaged and
her sister dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The fourth Mysteries Of Angel Butte (see Cop By Her Side, Bringing
Maddie Home and Everywhere She Goes) is a timely (NFL) character-driven police
procedural mindful of the <span class="itemprop">Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit as the storyline takes a deep look at the impact of child abuse. The lead couple share in common love for each
other, dedication to their jobs and damaged psyches from their troubled
childhood. Leisurely-paced with the
romance taking a back seat to the abuse plot, </span>Janice Kay Johnson
provides an intense drama.<span class="itemprop"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-38311850086613365782014-09-19T12:29:00.002-07:002014-09-19T12:29:37.548-07:00The Texan’s Twins-Pamela Britton<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Texan’s Twins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pamela Britton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harlequin American Romance, <span class="grey3">Sep 2 2014</span>, $5.50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: 9780373755356<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the middle of a field in Nowhere, Texas, Jet Baron goes to meet
J.C. Marks. However, instead of the male
project engineer just hired by Baron Energies, he sees a beautiful woman. He assumes the female is a stripper sent as a
joke. After that auspicious start,
arrogant Jet continues to step into sh*t including offering to meet no-nonsense
Jasmine Caroline Marks for breakfast; while she mocks his occupation of rodeo
performer and scorns his skirt chasing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Attracted to the feisty engineer, Jet learns she is the single
mother of twin girls (Brooke and Gwen) whose father, her fiancé, Darren died
before she gave birth. As they work
together, Jet and J.C. fall in love, but her kids come first especially when Brooke
becomes ill; reminding the harried mother heartbreakingly of what happened to
Darren.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The fourth Texas Rodeo Barons romance </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(see The Texan's Little Secret by <span style="background: white;">Barbara White Daille and The Texan’s Cowgirl Bride by
Trish Milburn</span>) is a warm
family novel starring a seemingly care-free philanderer and a stressed-out
mom. The strong females (his sister
Lizzie - see The Texan's Baby by Donna
Alward, the engineer, and the twins) make this a winning contemporary;
while their male counterparts (Jet, his dad and Lizzie’s mate Chris) struggle
to live up to the high standards the women and girls set.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-80386557677970524792014-09-19T12:28:00.002-07:002014-09-19T12:28:23.103-07:00Promises Under The Peach Tree-Joanne Rock<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Promises Under The Peach Tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Joanne Rock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harlequin SuperRomance, <span class="grey3">Sep
2 2014</span>, $6.75<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: 9780373608706<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">After her partner absconded with their funds leading to their
bakery failing in New York, Nina Spencer returns home back to Heartache, Tennessee
to be with her ailing beloved Gram; who raised her when her parents divorced
each other and their only child. Mack
Finley rarely returns to Heartache, but left Nashville to help his siblings
with the Harvest Festival with this year’s gala honoring his late dad who used
to manage the annual event when he was the town mayor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Over eight years ago when they were high school students, Nina and
Mack were sweethearts, but their breakup was ugly. When they meet for the first time in years,
Nina and Mack know they still love each other. However, both also fear the risk on their
respective hearts if they take that repeat first leap of faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Though the second chance romance between Mack and Nina is the
prime storyline, Promises Under The Peach Tree contains vigorous secondary
plots involving health issues, diversity and a failing marriage. Readers will appreciate this profound
small-town <em><span style="background: white; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Volunteer State</span></em> drama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879735392268026706.post-37669969828196257612014-09-18T11:51:00.001-07:002014-09-18T11:51:05.158-07:00Frozen Heart, Melting Kiss-Ellie Darkins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Frozen Heart, Melting Kiss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ellie Darkins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harlequin Romance, <span class="grey3">Sep
2 2014</span>, $5.99<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: 9780373743070<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rachel
begged Maya Hartney of Maya’s Delight to cater the Appleby and Associates
gala. Maya’s greatest sensation is to
watch people go orgasmic over her food. So
when, Rachel’s boss Will Thomas treats her gourmet spread like fine junk food,
she’s hurt by his reaction, one that she never had before. As she leaves, Maya realizes his treatment of
her reminds her of her parents quick to write her off. However, his boss Sir Cuthbert Appleby
lectures him for whatever he did to hurt Maya and demands he take time off
before he burns out; threatening to end the pro bono work Will does for the
worthy Julia House.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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visits Maya at her house to persuade her to change her mind and cater the
office dinner; she adamantly refuses as his descriptor “fine” is not good
enough for her to cook the meals. He
offers to be a student in her one-week cooking, but since that is filled she
counters with one-on-one lessons. As
they cook, kiss and fuss, the caterer and the workaholic fall in love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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culinary romance is an engaging jocular contemporary. The student fears heart-felt personal
relationships and the instructor’s only previous passion has been cooking
culinary delights for appreciative people. Ellie Darkins bakes
a warm (can’t use fine in order not to alienate Maya) contemporary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Jaguar Night” by Lindsay McKenna. In the Amazon Rainforest, a drug lord abducts
volunteer nurse Aly Landon. Marine Staff
Sergeant Josh Patterson liberates her from the vicious gang. Now they must trek a hundred miles in a rough
terrain with deadly force in pursuit, and her still hurt from her captivity and
not in shape for such a march. Josh
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Amazon Gold” by Merline Lovelace. In Peru, Naval <span style="background: white;">Chief
Charlene Dawson and her RCB crew conveys by sea Delta Force Sergeant First
Class Jack Halliday and his team into the Amazon. His mission is to take down former teammate
turned rogue drug dealer Sean McMasters.
Neither Charley nor Jack anticipated an attraction, but both feel the
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romance duology contains two action-packed plots due to the strong protagonists
working dangerous operations while falling in love in the exotic Amazon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Muckross of the Tenacious as the First Lieutenant on a two year South Seas
science expedition. Looking at the
vessel, Dance concludes the present state of the ship is a quick watery grave;
made worse by a drunken crew and captain, and two other officers in which one
is way past retirement age and the other is very green. Finally when the by the book former war veteran
believes matters could not turn uglier, <span style="background: white;">conchologist
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mutinous crew resents a female on board as women are a harbinger of doom for a
ship. Both he and Jane are taken aback
by their attraction to each other. While
she tries to focus on science, he attempts to concentrate on them keeping
afloat. Meanwhile others want to send
the scientist and the officer to a watery grave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Almost a Scandal and A Breath of
Scandal) is an entertaining High Seas adventure starring
opposites-attract couple. Jane proves
her skills beyond shells and Charles recognizing her abilities when they are in
dire straits by supporting her taking charge during a life-threatening scenario
by not playing macho hero. </span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Elizabeth Essex authors an excellent historical.<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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