New Romance eBook Releases 9.28.09

Here’s a round up of current and upcoming releases from a variety of eBook romance publishers for the week of September 28, 2009.

The romance novels and short stories below are not a complete listing of every eBook romance published this week, but rather a sampling from different subgenres**. Information is offered direct from the publishers’ websites, so this round-up should not be considered a review of the individual titles.

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING:

BOUND BY DESIGN
by Natasha Moore

Release Date: September 29, 2009

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Contemporary Romance, Red Hots!

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $3.50

Description: He may bind her body, but can he bind her heart?

Jenn spends her days crafting custom-designed slave jewelry, but wear a collar herself? No, thanks. Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. That whole Master/slave scene was too much of a roller coaster ride. Then Scott, an architect with a dominant side, enters her life. Something about him makes her body come alive with longings for another taste of the lifestyle.

Scott’s life fell apart when he tried to deny his dominant tendencies. He’s determined to convince Jenn that denying her submissive needs would be a big mistake. Her response is so strong, so sweet, he finds himself falling again and falling apart for the smart and sexy sub.

Suddenly, something he thought he’d never have seems within reach—a forever love tied up in a nice leather bow. But any mention of 24/7 sends Jenn flying away in panic. If any real healing is to take place, he’ll need to take a giant step back and design a new approach using ropes, chains…and a whole lot of trust.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

CERRIDWEN PRESS:

UNFOLDING THE SHADOWS
by Katie O’Sullivan

Release Date: October 1, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket (including Kindle)

Price: $6.99

Description: Jillian has worked hard to close the doors on her past and the psychic abilities that defined her youth. For sixteen years, she’s ignored the ghosts who still try to whisper to her. Even her controlling husband Kyle has no idea that his wife can talk to spirits. But on the day after Christmas, her great aunt’s car smashes head-on with a commuter train and Jillian finds herself on a collision course with ghosts who refuse to remain in the shadows any longer.

Long-hidden secrets are coming to light and Jillian’s life has to change to accommodate them. With the help of her friends and a substantial inheritance, she sets her life in a new direction, but Kyle’s not about to lose out on his share of Jillian’s inheritance—even if he has to kill her to get it.

Excerpt available at publisher’s website.

ELLORA’S CAVE:

ELLORA’S CAVEMEN: FLAVORS OF ECSTASY III
by Angelia Sparrow, Cheryl Dragon, Courtney Bee, Fiona Jayde, Lyla Sinclair, Naomi Brooks, Sherry James

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: 6 Stories/Super Novel Length (judging by cover price)

Subgenre: Erotic Romance Anthology which includes Paranormal, Contemporary, Historical, Suspense

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $9.99

Description: Cherry Tart by Angelia Sparrow & Naomi Brooks

In 1896, disgraced Chastity is sent to the New Abilene Colony on Jupiter’s moon of Io. Resigned to a fast marriage in order to save her nonexistent virtue, she doesn’t count on falling hard and lustfully for handsome Ulysses. During the six-month trip, the virile Outrider, whose favorite part of his job is lassoing and riding asteroids away from the ship, meets his match in this petite redhead. Chastity teaches him in delicious detail exactly why her name fits her so badly.

Climbing the Corporate Ladder Without Panties by Courtney Bee

Kate’s plan to become editor at a male-dominated publishing house just suffered a major setback, and to make matters worse, the cocky but handsome IT guy is on his own quest—to make Kate his.

One night Kate succumbs to his brash charm, shocked as he loosens her prim bun and bends her over for a spanking. Ashamed to admit she’s just had the best sex of her life, Kate has to make a decision—keep control, forfeiting sexual bliss for a dream career, or embark on a sexual journey where she surrenders all power.

Eight Seconds by Sherry James

Erotic writer Taylor Westfall needs fresh inspiration. Who better to help her research sexual techniques than professional bull rider Devlin McCord? Devlin’s red-hot reputation proves his riding skills aren’t limited to the arena. Taylor’s sure he can get her juices—creative and otherwise—flowing if she can find the nerve to proposition him.

Devlin is tired of one-night stands and life on the road. He wants the girl he’s loved since high school. When Taylor tells him she needs to have sex with him, he’s ready…and he’s got more than eight seconds in him.

Pitch Black by Fiona Jayde

Breathless seduction in a glass elevator above a darkened Kiev covers up the deactivation of Katherine Belaya’s implanted GPS tracker. Nicholai Rostov may have just saved her life or led her into a trap set by the Russians. Her lust for him is simple nerves, adrenaline pumped high by the threat of bullets. As they fight for survival, Kate’s trust in Nick may be the only thing keeping them alive.

Shifting Sides by Cheryl Dragon

In spite of being held captive by sadistic scientists, shifters Kiren and Breman forged a relationship. The evacuation of Earth forced them apart but their mutual lust never died. Now Breman has the chance to bring Kiren back to the rebel colony with him.

Cat-shifter Kiren has missed her dragon-shifter mate and when Breman catches up with her on Old Earth, their lust gets the best of them—for once without limits or spectators. Finally sharing all their secrets, Breman has a plan. Freedom and passion are within reach if they can escape the assassins in orbit.

The Johnson Obsession by Lyla Sinclair

From her balcony, Vivian secretly sketches her sexy wet neighbor while he swims and lounges at the apartment pool each evening.  When he shows up at her door one night, she’s sure he’s there to deliver some misdirected mail. But suddenly, Duke is dominating her, carrying out sexual plans that she could only dream of—exactly the one’s she’s dreamed of, in fact. He knows the contents of her dirty little fantasies. But will he see it through to the ending she’d never dared ask of any man?

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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REV ME UP
by Adele Dubois

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary Erotic Romance with Latin Theme

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.95

Description: Lisa has always been a Good Girl. When she flashes her breasts at the hunk riding by on his Harley, her wild impulse seems like harmless fun. How could she know he’d hit the curb and land at her feet? To make amends with the cop from Santa Fe, Lisa agrees to a cocktail with him. When she slides on the bike and wraps her arms around Antonio’s buff body, they take off on the ultimate ride.

Antonio’s in town for his brother’s graduation before heading to FBI training. Lisa’s there to break up with her cheating midshipman boyfriend. Revenge sex with a hot cop may be the perfect way to unleash her inner Bad Girl. But can she keep her feelings casual?

With sexy Antonio by her side and the lust blazing between them, this Bad Girl may have a chance to have it all. As long as an ex-boyfriend out for revenge doesn’t destroy her new happiness.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

THE WILD ROSE PRESS:

THE CARETAKER
by Gabriella Lucas

Release Date: October 2, 2009

Word Count: 2 Novellas (260 pages total)

Subgenre: Fantasy Romance, Spicy

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: NA

Description: A WOMAN ACHING TO FIND LOVE AND PASSION . . .

Nikki Quinn, fresh off an acrimonious divorce, is looking for a place to live with her eleven-year-old daughter, a new job–and love. When she inherits her best friend’s mansion, she has no idea that her friend’s ghost lingers there, nor does she know that the spirit of Paddy Doyle, cursed over two hundred years ago, comes with the property. The truth about what really happened so long ago is buried deep within the recesses of Nikki’s mind.

Attracted to her new boss, Michael Williams, but mesmerized by Paddy’s spirit and haunted by ghosts of the 1798 Irish Rebellion, Nikki straddles two worlds, as well as her past life and her present one.

A MAN AFRAID TO LOVE AGAIN . . .

Nikki’s new boss, attorney Michael Williams, lost his wife in a tragic accident six years ago. When he meets Nikki, his heart tells him yes but his head tells him no. It’s always been easy for Michael to walk away from a beautiful woman, but his feelings for Nikki are different. They reach deep into his heart; they transcend pain and time. When he finally opens his heart to her, he cannot begin to imagine how the ghosts of Ireland will affect his future . . . and threaten his life.

Drawn into a loop of reincarnation and the supernatural, their lives hang in the balance.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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SLEEPING WITH SKELETONS
by Doralynn Kennedy

Release Date: October 2, 2009

Word Count: Novel (272 pages)

Subgenre: Romantic Suspense, Spicy

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $6.00

Description: Former CIA operative Margaret Garrison is not the woman she appears to be when she arrives in rural Ireland, hoping to find a quiet respite from running for her life. The last thing she needs is to catch the eye of Aidan Grimes, the wildly popular Irish actor filming the movie Jane Eyre in Ballyrick.
Rumored to have broken a thousand hearts, Aidan is also a man of many surprises. The very secrecy that shrouds Margaret compels him to want to know more about her, which inadvertently alerts her enemies to her location and threatens not only Margaret’s life, but those of the people around her.
Between Aidan, his father, and a little girl desperately in need of a mother, Margaret discovers a life she has always dreamed of but never dared hoped for. But with the skeletons from her past drawing nearer each day, can love triumph over evil, or is it all just a myth?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

RED ROSE PUBLISHING:

HELLO: KEYSHIA WILLIAMS
THE WILLIAM SISTERS: BOOK I
by Marie Rochelle

Release Date: September 24, 2009

Word Count: Novella (30K words)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Interracial/Multicultural

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket

Price: $2.99

Description: Hotel/spa owner Keyshia Williams is used to being the good older sister and daughter that her family depends on. She always follows the rules and doesn’t have spontaneous bone in her body. She has given up on love deciding to devote her time to working at her business Family Affair along with dishing out unwanted advice to her three younger sisters, but all of that changes when Steven Weber walks through the door.

Tabloid journalist Steven Weber has grown tired of the scandal that comes along with his job. He is no longer interested in making money off a celebrity’s misfortune, so he decides to take a much needed vacation. He isn’t thinking about a woman or a relationship when he walks through the doors of Family Affair, but he quickly changes his mind after one soft spoken word – Hello.

Will the good sister find something that tempts her to take a walk on the wild side with bad boy Steven Weber or will she continue to think love is not going to find its way to her door?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

LOOSE ID:

A TRICK OF THE MOON
by Melinda Barron

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary Multicultural Romantic Suspense, Erotica, Ménage à trois

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket

Price: $5.99

Description: Big, beautiful woman Maura Atwell has put away her attorney shoes to run her father’s guest ranch while he recovers from a stroke. When what looks to be a Native American kiva is discovered on her father’s land, she does what any good attorney would do: she has it investigated.

Archeologist Declan Littlecreek has wanted Maura since they were in college. Knowing sex and friendship don’t always mix, he kept things from getting too heavy. Now that Maura is asking for his help in exploring her new find, he’s all game. And he’s ready to explore the attraction between them if she is.

Declan and his best friend, policeman Dario Fuentes, travel to the Full Moon Ranch to see what they can learn. While the threesome explores the kiva, they also discover a passion that burns hot between the three of them, binding them together. Will it survive the end of the exploration or will it turn out to be just a trick of the moon?

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DOMINATING VICTORIA
by Kitty DuCane

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Paranormal Shapeshifter Romantic Suspense, BDSM

Formats Available : Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket

Price: $4.99

Description: Victoria McLain’s dad was the best DEA agent ever, but now he’s dead and Victoria’s hell-bent on making the responsible Colombian cartel leader pay. Even though she’s not DEA, her dad trained her as DEA and she plans to use all her training to extract revenge. Her only problem is Hayden Hunt.

Hayden Hunt is a DEA agent and a werewolf. His wolf senses are a blessing when Victoria’s lying to him and a curse when her emotional pain bleeds. Even though he doesn’t know the reckless beauty he’s hunting by name, he knows her and he’s determined to keep his mate from her revenge, especially since she doesn’t plan to survive.

Brought together by circumstance, Victoria and Hayden spend their days battling each other and fill their nights with passion as Hayden takes and claims his mate again and again.

But when Victoria discovers that Hayden’s the only survivor of the ambush that killed her dad, she wonders if he’s the mole in the DEA she’s been looking for. Hayden will have to prove himself again, if he’s going to keep dominating Victoria.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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Every effort is made to locate and promote eBook romances at all heat levels from sweet to erotica. If you’re the author of an upcoming release, please considering submitting a blurb about your book using this blog’s Your Chance to Brag! page.

**Finally, please note many romance eBooks on the market today have a high heat level. The individual publisher’s websites may caution readers under the age of 18 to discontinue reading excerpts and other material.

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New Romance eBook Releases 9.21.09

Here’s a round up of current and upcoming releases from a variety of eBook romance publishers for the week of September 21, 2009.

The romance novels and short stories below are not a complete listing of every eBook romance published this week, but rather a sampling from different subgenres**. Information is offered direct from the publishers’ websites, so this round-up should not be considered a review of the individual titles.

LYRICAL PRESS:

THE SUMMONER
by Alisha Steele

Release Date: September 21, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Erotica, Paranormal, BDSM

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.50

Description: The enemy may be his only hope…

Fallen angel Kasdeya hates all mortals. They’re little more than playthings, as far as he’s concerned. But when he finds himself facing a thousand-year prison sentence, he has no choice but to call on the one woman who might set him free: the Summoner.

His plan is simple…seduce her for his own purposes, then throw her away. If only she weren’t so argumentative, so intelligent. If only she weren’t so damned sexy!

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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JESSE’S BROTHER
by Wendy Ely

Release Date: September 21, 2009

Word Count: Short Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.50

Description: One woman, two men: a single summer to choose between them.

Sacrificing a summer to fix her relationship with her mother and find out what’s troubling her father isn’t so bad…right? Wrong. Or so Samantha learns upon her return to Portland.

As if family drama wasn’t bad enough, first comes Noah. Then comes Jesse. Samantha is torn between the way her heart skips a beat each time Noah looks at her, and the way Jesse’s touch make her yearn for more.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

ELLORA’S CAVE:

SHIVER ME
by Amarinda Jones

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Paranormal Pirate Romance

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description: Violet Rose is stunned at the gift bequeathed to her by her aunt Zeta. Shiver me timbers, it’s a pirate! The hot and sexy swashbuckler makes his intentions clear. He wants Violet—and he’ll do anything she desires. Despite all the reasons she shouldn’t, Violet begins to fall in love with the charming rogue.

Pirate Nathaniel Dreadnought has been waiting two hundred years for his true love to release him from his lonely hell. The lovely and very sexy Violet is everything he wants in a woman. To win her love he will fight the fiends of hell.

But an old foe has been waiting for the awakening of Dreadnought, and he’ll stop at nothing to come between the two lovers.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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DEVILISH DOT
by Jaid Black

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Fantasy Romance, Erotica

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description: A Khan-Gor Tale from the Trek Mi Q’an Series.

Dorothy “Dot” Araiza is a sex-toy maker by trade. One would think she has an active social life, but on the contrary, her existence is a rather boring, staid one. Dot dreams of finding her happily-ever-after, of being swept off her feet by Prince Charming—not to mention getting laid after eight pathetic years! One lightning storm later, all Dot’s fevered fantasies will come true.

But Prince Charming isn’t quite what she’d been expecting…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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GIGGLES BY GABBY
by Ashlyn Chase

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Quickie

Subgenre: Paranormal

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $2.49

Description: Gabrielle Sparks’ dream job is a nightmare. The only perk for the vibrant, young extrovert is the gorgeous Latino guy who delivers spring water. She sketches him as superhero Agua man. Little does she know that she’s “outing” San Francisco’s only real superhero.

Jose Santiago carries giant water bottles over one well-muscled shoulder. Joe Cooler, as he’s nicknamed, takes on a different role whenever anyone calls for help. Can Joe pose for the adorable artist without revealing that Agua man lives? He might have to see himself in the funny papers since his lust is anything but funny.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING:

COMING FULL CIRCLE
by Liz Andrews

Release Date: September 22, 2009

Word Count: Category Length Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary Romance, Red Hots!

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.50

Description: They’ve waited ten years. Will they finally gain everything they ever desired…and more?

There’s only one bright spot Jasmine Hayes can see when she’s suckered into helping plan her high school reunion. At least she’ll be able to reconnect with old friends Chase Randolph and Alex Landry. There’s nothing she regrets more than losing touch with those two handsome guys.

Chase and Alex hadn’t planned to attend the reunion, but the chance to see Jasmine again has Chase intrigued. Alex is his best friend and love of his life, but Jasmine will always be the girl who got away.

One instant message is all it takes to center Alex’s thoughts on a lusty reunion with Jasmine. He’s extremely happy with Chase, but she’s always been the girl of his dreams. He can’t help but wonder if the chemistry the three of them had in high school is still there.

Renewing old ties, however, puts triple the strain on some old ones. The choice they face is which ones to risk severing—and which ones are worth keeping.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

THE WILD ROSE PRESS:

MONTEGO LAY
by Helen Hardt

Release Date: September 10, 2009

Word Count: Short Story (41 pages)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Erotica

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $2.00

Description: Vacationing at a Montego Bay nude resort, Lisa Brooks finds herself volunteering in a bondage demonstration on the beach. She’d like to continue the instructions with the Jamaican native, but the gorgeous resort employee has other duties to perform. Though disappointed, Lisa accompanies a friend to an erotic casino night where the chips are free and redeemable for sex. A night for a mysterious encounter? If only she could buy the island hottie she really wants.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

LIQUID SILVER BOOKS:

FOR A PRICE
by Olivia Brynn

Release Date: September 21, 2009

Word Count: Not available at posting time.

Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, Rocketbook

Price: Not available at posting time.

Description: You can’t get blood from a stone. That’s what Maureen Sullivan’s mother always told her, but now it’s collection time, and bill collectors aren’t after blood; they want money. At this point, she’d do just about anything…for a price. To get her mother out of the red, Maureen packs her tiny nest egg and runs to Las Vegas, hoping for a miracle.

Once in Sin City, Maureen’s Aunt Lottie shows her that the fastest way out of a financial hell doesn’t lie in Maureen’s luck at a blackjack table, but in the auction of a much more controversial commodity: Maureen’s virginity. Vegas is the perfect place to cash in. What they decide to do will not only make headlines in the Nevada city, but around the world.

The last thing Maureen needs right now is to fall for sexy Nicholas Webster, who’s used to getting everything he wants. Because when the time comes, she’d have to betray the man she’s come to love in order to fulfill her contract. Will she be able to sell herself? And at what price?

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

RED ROSE PUBLISHING:

FOREIGN EXCHANGE
by Rachel Cade

Release Date: September 17, 2009

Word Count: Novella (27K words)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Interracial/Multicultural

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $2.99

Description: Lorna’s life has, so far, been quite disappointing, with big dreams on the backburner as she’s forced to deal with current woes; a low paying waitress job and perpetual single life. On a mundane trip to Macy’s she finds herself feeling insecure about her full figure while shopping with her thin best friend. In a move that totally contrasts her shy demeanor she finds herself drawn to a mane of waving platinum blond hair and the well dressed businessman attached to it.

Unbeknownst to her, she is beginning a journey that will lead to her losing all inhibitions and enjoying her wildest fantasies.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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RIDE THE WILD WIND
by Kimberly Ivy

Release Date: September 17, 2009

Word Count: Novel (101K words)

Subgenre: Time Travel, Historical/Period, Interracial/Multicultural

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $5.99

Description: When Halle Brooks’ life in the present ends following a car crash, she is catapulted back in time to 1863. According to her Spirit Guide, Halle’s presence in the past will bring about justice for a missing woman to whom Halle bears an uncanny resemblance. Soon after arriving, Halle is kidnapped by the notorious outlaw, Antonio Whitehorse.

Before abducting the beautiful, yet oddball woman whose likeness appears on a reward poster, half-Navajo Antonio Whitehorse had only two concerns: saving The People from starvation and incarceration, and avenging the death of his family. Now he has a third–the captive who’s stolen his heart. She claims she’s from the future–and that she knows the chilling fate awaiting them all.

With the U.S. Calvary in pursuit of a fugitive Whitehorse, and a murderer poised to take revenge on Halle, passions and cultures collide in this fast-paced, sweeping tale of love and survival.

Who will survive and will love find a way to keep them together forever?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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Every effort is made to locate and promote eBook romances at all heat levels from sweet to erotica. If you’re the author of an upcoming release, please considering submitting a blurb about your book using this blog’s Your Chance to Brag! page.

**Finally, please note many romance eBooks on the market today have a high heat level. The individual publisher’s websites may caution readers under the age of 18 to discontinue reading excerpts and other material.

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New Romance eBook Releases 9.14.09

Here’s a round up of current and upcoming releases from a variety of eBook romance publishers for the week of September 14, 2009.

The romance novels and short stories below are not a complete listing of every eBook romance published this week, but rather a sampling from different subgenres**. Information is offered direct from the publishers’ websites, so this round-up should not be considered a review of the individual titles.

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING:

CABIN FEVER
by Alisha Rai

Release Date: September 15, 2009

Word Count: Category Length Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary Paranormal Romance, Red Hots!

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.50

Description: Love isn’t something she thinks she needs…until it lands right on her doorstep.

Genevieve Boden is a witch and doesn’t care who knows. The townspeople’s fear of her keeps away those who have hurt her before—like the local men of authority. Besides, a life of exile deep in the woods of West Virginia is due punishment, she figures, for the part she played in her mother’s death. If she’s alone, no one need know that the trauma took away her powers.

Then she finds a bloody, fatally wounded man slumped on her porch. In an instant, her healing ability reawakens—and that’s not all. He stirs a hunger beyond her wildest dreams. But a relationship with the new chief of police? Not a chance.

Alex Rivera isn’t sure how he survived, but he’s certain his beautiful savior did more than just bandage his wounds. Captivated by this wary angel and stunned by the depth of emotion he feels for her, he vows to discover her secrets. After all, thanks to the raging snowstorm, they have nothing to do but share body heat.

Their sizzling attraction goes straight to their hearts. So could a killer’s bullet…once whoever shot Alex finds them.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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IF YOU BELIEVE
by Crystal Jordan

Release Date: September 15, 2009
Word Count: Short Story

Subgenre: Contemporary Romance, Red Hots!

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $2.50

Description: There’s only one man she needs to believe in. Him.

When it comes to her love life, the name of Aubrey Mathison’s coffee shop says it all: “Bean There, Done That”. There’s only one harmless man in her life right now—the homeless one parked outside the shop. Except the crazy things he says keep coming true.

She has to laugh at “You’ll meet your soul mate today”, though. Divorce taught her that men as gorgeous as sexy police chief Price Delacroix are not to be trusted. She’s totally up for a one-night stand, but more than that? No, thanks.

Price bears his own scars from the past, but he knows instantly that Aubrey is his. How to convince her he wants more than to be her personal jungle gym? Cut her off. That means no more mattress gymnastics—until she starts seeing things his way.

Aubrey is just as determined Price’s campaign to wear down her resistance is going to fail, no matter how wickedly determined he is. Until her resident prophet spouts a new prediction: her soul mate’s life is in danger…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

RED ROSE PUBLISHING:

BIKER BABE IN BLACK
by Debra Kayn

Release Date: September 10, 2009

Word Count: Category Length Novel (44K words)

Subgenre: Contemporary

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $3.99

Description:

Even on her motorcycle, Margarine Butter, can’t outrun the bad luck that continues to follow her around. Fired from her second job in less than a week all because of some man, she’s got two options: Hit the rode on her Motorcycle and find another job, or call it quits and go back to The Chromes and Wheels Gang. At the rate she’s going, she’ll never achieve her dream of buying a home where she can plant some roots.

Business Tycoon, Remy Montgomery, can’t believe the waitress refused his offer and rode off on a Harley Davidson without a second thought. Determined to get the biker babe in bed, he tracks her down and offers her a job she can’t refuse.

Is Margarine’s luck changing or is she making a horrible mistake?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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LOST IN HIS ARMS
by M.S. Spencer

Release Date: September 10, 2009

Word Count: Novel (61K words)

Subgenre: Contemporary Romance, Action/Adventure

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $5.99

Description: In an era electric with possibility and peril Chloe Gray, political writer, and Michael Keller, CIA troubleshooter, meet under curiously conventional circumstances. Despite the instantaneous sparks, they both sense there is more between them than physical attraction. Chloe’s professional detachment from the dramatic world events of the 1990s—a disintegrating USSR, Middle East peace talks, and Vietnam’s reemergence on the world stage—dissolves as their love affair intensifies. Michael appears and disappears at unpredictable moments, leaving her limp and lovelorn. Is he using her or protecting her? In her quest for answers, she is yanked into the dangerous world of Michael’s work—in Washington, DC, in France, and in Spain. Looking for safe harbor (for her emotions? or her body?), she submits to the advances of a dashing French diplomat. Will she embrace the luxury and comfort of Emile and his chateau or the romance of international intrigue with Michael?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

CERRIDWEN PRESS:

GARETH’S GAMBIT
by Jean Hart Stewart

Release Date: September 17, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Historical Fantasy Romance

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket (including Kindle)

Price: $5.95

Description: It is 1919. Gareth Townsend, Viscount Hunter, admits two women and a child to his manor house, even though he senses they bring trouble with them. His mage’s power demands he helps others with his magical skills. Even as Morgana scorns his abilities Gareth tries to help her sister find her malicious husband Frank. But Gareth’s gifts plus those of his twin sister cannot turn Amy from her self-destructive path.

Morgana is left with the child Katie, whom she adores, and tries to protect her from her father. When Frank turns his lecherous eyes on Morgana, Gareth realizes he must stop him with any means possible, including all his magic.

In addition, he suspects Frank might turn out to be the spy Gareth has been seeking. His country, his beautiful Morgana, and the adorable child are all dependent on his skill as a descendant of Merlin.

Excerpt available at publisher’s website.

ELLORA’S CAVE:

RODEO HEAT
by Desiree Holt

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary Western Romance, Erotica

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.95

Description: Maybe it’s the animalistic heat of the rodeo—or the pin with special powers that the old woman all but forces her to buy…

Whatever it is, within seconds of meeting rodeo rider Ben Lovell, Grace Delany’s safe world crumbles in a voluptuous explosion of lust. Every night is something new. From the handcuffs to the intriguing sex toys, Grace gives in to it all, relishing her body’s responses to this younger man. As Ben leads her from one earth-shattering climax to another, as her body softens and opens to him, all she can do is hang on for dear life and follow his lead.

But when the rodeo is over, it may prove impossible to walk away from the man who’s taken her on an outrageous journey of self-discovery…a man with no sexual limits or boundaries.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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KITTEN
by Amanda Sidhe

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Vampire Romance, ménage à trois

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description: Only a rare human can sense the Summoning of a vampire. The call lures Jamie from her safe life into the seductive clutches of a vampire clan. Bestowed the nickname of Kitten, Jamie is anything but weak. The two young vampires who Summoned her desire to transform her into their “Summon”, to satisfy their every physical and sexual need, but not even a mind-blowing ménage a trois is enough to convince Kitten she’s cut out to be a servant to a couple of vampires. Their master, a Kinsman known as Deacon, has other plans for Kitten. Using her sexuality to take control of her destiny, Kitten discovers the true power of the vampire.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

THE WILD ROSE PRESS:

STARS IN HER EYES
by Beverly Bretton-Carroll

Release Date: September 8, 2009

Word Count: Short Story (28 pages)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Sweet

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $2.00

Description: If Dream Man never comes knocking, at least she’ll own the door. That’s 28-year-old paralegal Karen’s new plan, anyhow, to buy her own home, and the reason she’s been working every weekend– until she bends to her best friend’s pressure to spend a Saturday at the wave pool. Determined not to be derailed by another dead-end relationship, she avoids looking at the cute curly-haired guy—his friends call him Spence– carousing out in the waves. But the tide turns as she’s caught unaware, a wave pool virgin on her first time in, and swept into a head-on collision with one of his friends. When she manages to stand and open her eyes, the world has disappeared. She sees only Spence surrounded by dancing stars. Has she been knocked silly, or is he gazing right back at her?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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HIS KEEPER
by Brandy Jordan

Release Date: September 10, 2009

Word Count: Novel (304 pages)

Subgenre: Romantic Suspense, Spicy

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $6.00

Description: Tina Bond has found her dream job. But before she starts her new career, she has one last security assignment: protect a federal witness in an upcoming trial. She never imagined the ‘witness’ would be the very man who’d intrigued and repulsed her the first time they’d met. Nor did she imagine the kind of stakes she’d be facing – stakes that would bring her past full circle and shake the very fiber of her soul. Matt Lawson has one goal left – finish his latest book then set sail to where no one will demand more of him than he wants to give. The only thing standing in his way is a sexy bodyguard assigned to protect him from those who want him silenced – forever. Now he finds himself trying to protect her, while also attempting to shield his heart from a woman whose past could turn his world upside down.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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LONELY NO MORE
by Selena Illyira

Release Date: September 14, 2009

Word Count: Not provided

Subgenre: Contemporary Paranormal Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, Rocketbook

Price: Price Not Given

Description: Five years ago on Halloween, author William Moore carelessly broke up with a witch. Needless to say, she didn’t take it well. Cursed to a lonely non-life as a ghost, locked in his own home, he never expected to do more than exist in the world his ex had created. Except now he’s got a new roommate in the form of fellow author, Alyssa Washington. Nor did he anticipate the undeniable attraction to her. As their feelings grow for one another, he curses his ex and yearns to become mortal once again.

Can his new found feelings give him what he wishes for most?

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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Every effort is made to locate and promote eBook romances at all heat levels from sweet to erotica. If you’re the author of an upcoming release, please considering submitting a blurb about your book using this blog’s Your Chance to Brag! page.

**Finally, please note many romance eBooks on the market today have a high heat level. The individual publisher’s websites may caution readers under the age of 18 to discontinue reading excerpts and other material.

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New Romance eBook Releases 9.7.09

Here’s a round up of current and upcoming releases from a variety of eBook romance publishers for the week of September 7, 2009.

The romance novels and short stories below are not a complete listing of every eBook romance published this week, but rather a sampling from different subgenres**. Information is offered direct from the publishers’ websites, so this round-up should not be considered a review of the individual titles.

LOOSE ID:

YELLOWSTONE WILD
by India Masters

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Contemporary, Erotica, Ménage à trois

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket

Price: $4.99

Description: Libby Wild is a world famous photographer, working for an upscale travel magazine and living the good life. A firm believer in the credo, “You can never go home again,” she’s horrified when she’s assigned to do just that, go home to Wyoming and do a photo spread on Yellowstone National Park.

Identical twins Bodie and Ty Cade lived with a secret shame that prompted them to torment camera toting Libby Wild all throughout high school. Ten years later, feeling guilty over their treatment of her, they want to make it up the best way they know how: by giving her more pleasure than any woman has ever experienced.

But Libby’s not interested, or so she says. Fortunately for them, Libby’s body says different. It’s not hard to manipulate her situation to their advantage and convince her to accept them as backcountry guides. And, if the twins have their way, they’ll show her that Yellowstone’s scenery isn’t the only thing that will leave her breathless.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING:

ANOTHER TIME AROUND
by Catherine Wade

Release Date: September 8, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary Paranormal Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.50

Description: Love haunts…

Brin Maxwell once lived the ultimate rock-n-roll fantasy as the wife of the frontman for Hell’s Fury. It all ended in a flash—literally—with a lightning bolt that took Max’s life and left hers in suspended animation.

Two years later she’s ready to move on, but there’s a stumbling block: her sanity. Max’s ghost has decided to haunt her, and he’s got a bad habit of showing up at the most inconvenient moments. Like when she’s about to plant a long wet one on event planner David Lyle, the man she hopes will resurrect her love life.

David is real, solid, and makes her heart do the tango. He’s also curiously inept at his job—yet he has certain other talents that leave her wondering just what he’s hiding in his shadowy past.

Then there are the death threats. As they escalate from notes slipped under her door to full-scale, Kodak-moment terror, Brin realizes Max’s return is no coincidence. And that the only one she can turn to is David.

The man with the skills to save her life—unless he’s there to take it…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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MYLA BY MOONLIGHT
by Inez Kelley

Release Date: September 8, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Fantasy Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.50

Description: Magic bites…

Created at Prince Taric’s birth, Myla is a spell, an enchantment designed to appear and protect him when he needs it most. She has always been content to do her duty…until one night of forbidden passion leaves her longing to experience life—and love—as a mortal woman. Yet the risk is too great. Even if her blood runs as red as his, she can never give him the one thing he needs: a child.

Taric’s blessing—and his curse—is knowing the kingdom’s future depends on his producing an heir to continue the bloodline. His bond with Myla has always been that of protector and protected. When it suddenly becomes something much more, he unwittingly sentences his people to certain death.

An old enemy is plotting to destroy all he holds dear: his lands, his people, his father, and his lover. And this time, even if they fight tooth and blade, their shared magic may not be enough to save them…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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ROUGH STOCK
by Cat Johnson

Release Date: September 11, 2009

Word Count: Category Novel

Subgenre: Western Romance, Red Hots!

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.50

Description: The heart wants what it wants…

Bronc riders Mason and Clay have shared both good times and bad as best friends, but they never expected to share their boss’s daughter, April. Can two friends love one woman, body and soul, without it destroying them?

The heart wants what it wants. For April that means not choosing between the two cowboys she loves, no matter how wrong it may seem inviting them both into her bed.

Life sends the three lovers in opposite directions, but a devastating injury brings them all together again. Their relationship now is no less bittersweet—or complicated—than before. Once severed, old ties leave scars that are tough to heal…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

CERRIDWEN PRESS:

THE SALVATION OF CAPTAIN BEN CHANDLER
by Teri Thackston

Release Date: September 10, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Historical Romance

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket (including Kindle)

Price: $6.99

Description: Heading home to Texas after the Civil War, Confederate Captain Ben Chandler catches Clarity Breckenridge stealing the stallion he bought in Kentucky. Clarity says she owns the horse but everyone else claims that Clarity is dead. When a killer tries to permanently keep her from proving her identity, Ben whisks her—and her horse—to Texas.

Ben’s family is dead, his lover is gone and he suffered so many near misses during the war that he just wants to hide back home. When Clarity’s presence threatens to bring him painfully back to life, he resists his growing attraction to her.

Meanwhile Clarity’s vow to return home and prove her identity is strained by her growing attraction to Ben. But a near rape years earlier makes her afraid that she could not be a whole woman for him, so she pulls back, too. Fleeing a killer and their own pasts, can they reclaim Clarity’s identity and find love and new lives together?

Excerpt available at publisher’s website.

ELLORA’S CAVE:

CHECKING OUT AUDREY
by Lyla Sinclair

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Short Novella

Subgenre: Contemporary, Erotica

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $2.49

Description: For six years, student-worker-turned-librarian Audrey has peered through the bookshelves, watching the wild encounters in the third-floor reference section of the university library. She’s not proud of her little hobby, but it’s the closest she can come to an erotic experience since extreme shyness prevents her from making eye contact with others, much less anything else.

Until the day she’s found out and blackmailed.   Audrey thinks she’s going to an apartment to watch clandestinely, but once there is shocked to learn she’s meant to be the participant instead of the voyeur. Can she let go of her restraint long enough to enjoy a real night of pleasure with an actual man? And could this wild encounter somehow lead to a relationship of her own?

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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GYPSY NIGHTS
by Mandy M. Roth

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Short Novel

Subgenre: Vampire Romance, ménage à trois

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description: In the midst of a war between good and evil, a new type of vampire surfaced—one capable of compassion, love, remorse. Sebastian disobeyed orders, saving a pregnant gypsy carrying the child foretold to one day mate with a demon, forming a union that would end the war between their races.

Thirty years later, that child, Gitana, is now a very desirable woman. As Sebastian’s cold heart begins to beat again, he is driven by an undeniable need to claim her—in a strange twist of fate, he is her demon. But during the claiming, Gitana inherits Sebastian’s inner demon and is thrust into a web of insatiable lust. Complicating matters is Gitana’s ex, a vengeful werewolf who’ll stop at nothing to have her back.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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HEARTS AFIRE: SEPTEMBER
by Philippa Grey-Gerou and Michael Barnette

Release Date: September 7, 2009

Word Count: Anthology

Subgenre: Contemporary Erotica with Firefighter Theme, M/M

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, Rocketbook

Price: Price Not Given

Description: High Heat by Philippa Grey-Gerou:

With a flourishing catering business and an acclaimed restaurant to his name, chef Roman Geary had finally made it. Until his dreams go up in smoke, literally, when a fire devastates his kitchen. He finds a temporary home at the catering hall of the local fire company, putting him in close quarters with the attractive firefighter Jacob Niemczyk, who proves himself as adept in the kitchen as he is at fighting fires.

While Roman is skilled in the kitchen, he finds romance a bit trickier, but the two find their way into each other’s arms despite missteps and inconvenient interruptions. Their relationship looks to be off to a smoking start until a massive fire makes Roman question how willing his is to risk his heart to a man who constantly risks his life.

They say that if you can’t stand the heat, you should stay out of the kitchen. But when food is your life and your heart is on the line, sometimes it’s the safest place to be.

Five Alarm Lover by Michael Barnette:
On Rowland Mining colony Moon Three Delmar ‘Del’ Preston responds to a mine fire. What he doesn’t realize is the fire will lead to the one thing he needs most in his life… love.

Rowland mining executive, Aaron Halford has been called a freak–and worse–his entire life. Born with psi-talent Aaron doesn’t need any added trouble in his life. But he finds trouble in the form of a mysterious man made of flames and a hot firefighter he wants worse than he’s ever wanted anyone.

The fire isn’t the only heat these two men experience. Sparks of lust ignite and burn hot for them both, but the risk of a ‘suit’ and ‘grunt’ having a relationship has consequences, consequences more dangerous than either of them realize.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

RED SAGE PUBLISHING:

HER DARK MASTER
by Jennifer August

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Historical Regency, Capture and Bondage

Formats Available: PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket

Price: $5.95

Description: In Regency England, good girls like Victoria Ashford don’t pen wicked stories for underground sex papers and they certainly don’t don a mask and exchange places with a whore in a desperate bid to share one night of passion with the man she’s always desired. When Matthew Corwin, Earl of Sussex, discovers the identity of his remarkably responsive, submissive “whore”, he plots erotic payback for her treacherous deception, never intending to let his heart get involved. But protecting her from a blackmailer makes him realize maybe there’s more than just being her dark master…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

THE WILD ROSE PRESS:

WORTH EVERY BREATH
by Suzannah Safi

Release Date: September 1, 2009

Word Count: Novel (200 pages)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Hot

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $4.50

Description:

When the lovely Annabelle from California takes on a job in York, England as a companion for an embittered, paralyzed Chris MacCloud who has lost his wife in an accident, she finds herself strangely drawn to his savage sensuality. But she must overcome not only his deep mistrust of love, which is inflamed by her uncanny resemblance to his late wife, but also withstand the wicked relatives who are scheming for his fortune.

Little does Annabelle know that at the end of this twisted trail of passion and deceit lies, in the words of a song she has written, “what I’m looking for….it’s worth every breath.” Can Chris forget his past, can Annabelle win his trust and teach him to love again? And can she herself learn to forgive and forget?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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Every effort is made to locate and promote eBook romances at all heat levels from sweet to erotica. If you’re the author of an upcoming release, please considering submitting a blurb about your book using this blog’s Your Chance to Brag! page.

**Finally, please note many romance eBooks on the market today have a high heat level. The individual publisher’s websites may caution readers under the age of 18 to discontinue reading excerpts and other material.

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New Romance eBook Releases 8.31.09

Kindling Romance Celebrates Its 100th Post…

With the Monday morning crop of current and upcoming eBook romance releases for the week of August 31, 2009.

The romance novels and short stories below are not a complete listing of every eBook romance published this week, but rather a sampling from different subgenres**. Information is offered direct from the publishers’ websites, so this round-up should not be considered a review of the individual titles.

HARLEQUIN:

WIND KISSED, FIRE BOUND
by Anna Hackett

Release Date: September 1, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Paranormal Romance (Nocturne Bites)

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, MS Reader, Mobipocket, Kindle, iPhone, iPod

Price: $2.69

Description: For centuries, she has felt nothing…

As Keeper of the Winds, Livia Cavalli needed to focus her power on keeping the evil Tempest Winds trapped in their island prison. What she doesn’t need is to be distracted by sexy horse trainer Rafe Donovan. Three hundred years ago, Livia became an immortal Keeper to numb her emotions, but Rafe arouses her in a way she hasn’t felt for centuries.

For Rafe, Livia is a challenge he longs to solve—and take to bed. Once she’s in his arms, their desire is overwhelming. But when his own powers reveal Livia’s secret pain, he realizes taking her body isn’t enough—he wants to heal her soul, too…

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THE COUNTESS’S CLIENT
by Alison Richardson

Release Date: September 1, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Spice Brief

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, MS Reader, Mobipocket, Kindle, iPhone, iPod

Price: $2.69

Description: “The practice of genuine virtue leads to a life of odious boredom.”

So feels widowed young countess Anna von Esslin, who is denied her normal erotic pursuits while staying with relatives in Paris. Without her usual opportunities for pleasure, the countess resorts to visiting a local brothelbut not as a client. To get the satisfaction she craves, the countess must masquerade as one of the girls….

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN HEAT
by Vivian Arend

Release Date: August 31, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: Not available at blog time.

Description: Blake Coleman is old enough to know that acting on impulse causes nothing but a heap of trouble. But when trouble’s a blonde wearing a cowboy hat with slim legs that go on forever, what’s a man to do? Wanting the sweet girl next door is just wrong. Hell, he was the one that taught her to ride a horse and now all he can think about is riding her. The responsible thing to do is keep his hands off.

Jaxi has other plans for his hands, and his heart. She may have considered Blake a big brother once but that was a long time ago. She’s all grown up now and ready to convince him that she’s just what he’s been waiting for.

Add the complication of two sexy younger brothers who have suddenly noticed Jaxi and things heat up fast. Blake’s gonna have to decide if a little trouble is worth fighting for.

Free excerpt available at the author’s website.

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REAPER
by Roxy Harte

Release Date: August 31, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Fantasy, Paranormal Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: Not available at blog time.

Description: Kendra Lake has a secret she’s keeping from Detective Jonathon Taylor of NYPD’s Homicide division. Intrigued by her, he will not rest until he discovers what she is hiding from him since she has been linked to at least three crime scenes in as many days.

Born Cynethryth ae Llyn Fawr in seven-twelve ante christum, Kendrah became immortal the day she traded her soul for the cloak of the reaper. To say that she has seen it all…been there, done that…is a gross understatement. She has been loved and given her heart in return but the price of loving again is too great because everybody dies.

When Detective Jonathon Taylor is in the wrong place at the wrong time, careening around a curve doing one-twenty on icy roads with his suidcidal ex-wife at the wheel, Kendrah is there to help the two of them cross over. What will be the price for saving one life?

ELLORA’S CAVE:

ADULT EDUCATION
by Katalina Leon

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Short Story

Subgenre: Contemporary, Light BDSM

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $2.49

Description: Miranda has always had a thing for leather and a burning desire for her favorite professor and ideal man, Stefan Hewson. The sumptuous temptations of leather strike hard when she finds herself on a dreary job assignment at her old college, locked in a coat closet with a man’s luscious leather coat. Her fantasies run even hotter when the sexy owner shows up and catches her fondling his leather. It turns out Professor Hewson has been carrying a torch for her and he’s more than willing to show her who’s in charge of the class. Miranda’s not the only one who’s love-struck and harboring scorching-hot bondage and leather fantasies. The handsome professor is ready to add a few creative footnotes of his own…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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ALL THE WOMEN IN PEARL
by Emily Ryan-Davis

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Historical, Western Romance

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description: C.C. Carver’s honeysuckle kiss has haunted John Raincrow for more than ten years. He would recognize her anywhere—even in a dusty saloon, dressed in a harlot’s costume. She’s returned to Colorado too late though, and while he’ll see her back to Pearl safe and sound, he will not let himself know the woman she has become. Not even if that woman kneels between his knees, moans into his mouth or whispers “please”.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING:

BENEATH THE SURFACE
by M. J. Fredrick

Release Date: September 1, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Romantic Suspense, Contemporary Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.50

Description: When past and present meet, secrets lie beneath the surface.

In retrospect, perhaps archaeologist Mallory Reeves shouldn’t have delivered the divorce papers to her estranged husband mere weeks before her marriage to another man. She knew seeing Adrian again would stir up memories, but she didn’t expect so many of them to be good, not after the mess they both made three years ago.

She also didn’t expect to want to stay at the dig site on the Yucatan Peninsula. But the lure of the ancient ship and, yes, her sexy ex provide more of a draw than the white picket fence she thought she wanted.

Marine archaeologist Adrian Reeves has good reason to trust no one. His former partner—and former best friend—made off with his last archaeological find. And his wife left him, frustrated by his obsession for professional revenge.

Now both Mallory and his nemesis have returned, and it can’t be an accident that they’ve turned up in the middle of the most important excavation of his career. Seeing her again unearths old pain—and rekindles never-forgotten desire. Now he has to decide if he can trust Mallory again. More importantly, if he can trust himself with her.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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SONG BIRD
by Maya Banks

Release Date: September 1, 2009

Word Count: Category

Subgenre: Contemporary Romance, Red Hots!

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.50

Description: The voice of an angel, a husband who loved her⎯she had it all…until a tragedy took it away.

They called her their Songbird, but she was never theirs. Not in the way she wanted.

The Donovan brothers meant everything to Emily, but rejected by Greer and Taggert, she turned to Sean, the youngest. He married her for love, and she loved him, but she also loved his older brothers.

Her singing launched her to stardom. She had it all. The voice of an angel, a husband who loved her, and the adoration of millions. Until a tragedy took it all away.

Taggert and Greer grieve for their younger brother, but they’re also grieving the loss of Emmy, their songbird. They take her back to Montana, determined to help her heal and show her once and for all they want her. They’re also on a mission to help her find her voice again. Under the protective shield of their love, she begins to blossom… until an old threat resurfaces.

Now the Donovans face a fight for what they once threw away. Only by winning it—and her love—will their songbird fly again.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

THE WILD ROSE PRESS:

DINER GIRL
by Mary Malcolm

Release Date: August 28, 2009

Word Count: Novel (236 pages)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Spicy

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $6.00

Description: “Most Eligible Bachelor” Dr. Mark Stanton can’t escape all the women pursuing him for the wrong reasons. So when the only woman in the city who doesn’t know who he is shows up at his doorstep, he can’t help but want to know her better. Unfortunately, she doesn’t want to know him at all after their time together and he has no idea why.

When Jennifer Cleary discovers she is pregnant by Mark after their one night together, she is immediately faced with the guilt of her actions…and decides not to tell him. When he shows up at her diner during the most complicated part of her pregnancy, she comes face to face with a man who promises to take care of her…no matter what. But will this strong-willed woman have to let go of her independence in order to find love?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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Every effort is made to locate and promote eBook romances at all heat levels from sweet to erotica. If you’re the author of an upcoming release, please considering submitting a blurb about your book using this blog’s Your Chance to Brag! page.

**Finally, please note many romance eBooks on the market today have a high heat level. The individual publisher’s websites may caution readers under the age of 18 to discontinue reading excerpts and other material.

Read Full Post »

New eBook Romance Releases 8.24.09

Here’s a round up of current and upcoming releases from a variety of eBook romance publishers for the week of August 24, 2009.

The romance novels and short stories below are not a complete listing of every eBook romance published this week, but rather a sampling from different subgenres**. Information is offered direct from the publishers’ websites, so this round-up should not be considered a review of the individual titles.

CERRIDWEN PRESS:

DON’T CALL ME SWEETHEART
by Jeanette Ward

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.95

Description: Trust doesn’t come easily for Whitney Lane after becoming an overnight sensation in the romance novel industry. Men are attracted to her success, not her. Her new cover model, wickedly handsome Christian Dade, also struggles to trust a world turned upside down following the deaths of his parents.

Now trouble stalks these two lonely hearts. Long ago Whitney found safety playing the part of her pseudonym’s assistant. She’s unprepared when Christian breaks down her defenses with one look from his dark, dangerous eyes. For once she wishes she could trust a man. This man.

Confused, Whitney runs when Christian verbally attacks “Lane McLaughlin”, who represents all he despises. Suddenly her alter ego is no longer protecting her. She finds, though, no matter how far she goes she ends up back where she started. A lonely heiress.

Whitney told a lie to protect herself. Is she strong enough to tell the truth and find love?

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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ELLORA’S CAVE:

CHASING EDEN
by Kristin Daniels

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Contemporary

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description: Graphic artist Eden Foster never expected a sexy game of hide-and-seek to turn into the hottest encounter of her life. The erotic dreams she’s had lately starring to-die-for rock star Shane Tolan are almost enough to make her forget how badly she wants to design his next CD cover. Almost, but not quite. And now here he is in the flesh, ready to chase after her.

Shane likes to play dirty and he finally has Eden right where he wants her—outside on a balcony, tied to a chaise lounge and under his complete control. But he soon discovers it’s not just Eden’s body he wants, but the talented, business-savvy artist, too. Hell, he wants every luscious part of her.

When paparazzi’s naked photos from that night show up on the internet, Eden is convinced her peers will believe she slept with the rock star just to design his CD cover. Shane knows nothing’s further from the truth. And in order to prove it to her, he’s going to have to show her his heart.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

RED ROSE PUBLISHING:

SKYE’S THE LIMIT
by Kianna Alexander

Release Date: August 20, 2009

Word Count: Novel (53.9K words)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Suspense/Mystery, Interracial/Multicultural

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $4.99

Description: One woman’s deepest, darkest secret is keeping her from living the life she desires. Skye Lynne Holdron used to be an outgoing, bubbly,ambitious person, until one fateful night in 1989 changed her from the inside out. Fifteen years later, she still suffers from nightmares and anxiety attacks. In order for Skye to find her way back to herself, she must first deal with the suppressed memories that plague her. But when the threats begin, she fears that her efforts, and perhaps her life, may be cut short.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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KISSING THE SUNRISE
by Kendal Ashby

Release Date: August 20, 2009

Word Count: Short Story (6K words)

Subgenre: Contemporary

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $1.99

Description: Grace Aldridge is ready to escape to a remote family cottage for some peaceful solitude. She wants to celebrate her one-year anniversary of being cancer free in private, giving her the time to reflect on her battle and her victory.

Crashing her car, spraining her ankle and getting lost in the dark forest were not part of her weekend plans. When Grace stumbles on to Jack Robert’s campfire, the handsome stranger tries to make the best of a bad situation. Left with no other option, Grace has to rely on Jack for help.

Despite the awkward circumstances, can Grace let her guard down long enough to actually enjoy the turn of events?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING:

CATCH ME IN CASTILE
by Kimberley Troutte

Release Date: August 25, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Paranormal Romance, Romantic Suspense

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.50

Description: Seeing dead people is bad enough. Loving him could make her one of them.

When the mother of all panic attacks prompts Erin Carter’s boss to pass her over for promotion, her mind doesn’t just crack. It explodes like an egg in a microwave, shattering her career along with the company car she crashes into the office building.

The death grip she’s kept on her sanity slipping, she takes a friend’s advice and flees to Spain. There she finds comfort in the healing arms of surgeon Santiago Botello—until a fifteenth-century ghost warns her that being with Santiago is dangerous, possibly even lethal.

Santiago has his hands full protecting his sister from a dark curse and his family from a very modern-day psychotic killer. The last thing he needs added to his plate is a neurotic American. Yet something about Erin tugs at his heart so hard he wants to wrap her in his arms and never let go. No matter the risk.

Erin’s attraction to Santiago makes her the killer’s next target. Survival means she must face her greatest fear, solve an ancient murder mystery—and hang on tight to the one man she’s fallen crazy in love with.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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RUN WOLF
by Keith Melton

Release Date: August 25, 2009

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Urban Fantasy, Shape-shifter

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $3.50

Description: One choice means heartbreak. The other, death.

Nightfall Wolf Clans, Book 1

Leah Kendrick is guilty of only one crime: loving her human mate, Tom, enough to give him the gift of The Bite. The Pack council is merciless, and the punishment swift. In an instant everything she’s ever known is ripped away, and they’re turned out into the long winter with nothing. No money, no car, and no protection from a variety of creatures who’d like nothing more than to take down a lone wolf.

Friendless and broke, they form a daring plan to take back what’s theirs and chase safety north. But the Pack has other ideas. And with time running out it’s about to call their bluff…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

THE WILD ROSE PRESS:

PLAY IT LOUD
by Gina Lee Nelson

Release Date: August 18, 2009

Word Count: Novel (156 pages)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Sweet

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $4.50

Description: Claire Ashton-Howard strikes out on her own to prove to herself, her Upper East Side family, and Downtown Magazine, she has what it takes to be a journalist. When she rescues Evan Price from the path of an oncoming subway train, she stumbles onto the story of a lifetime.

A devastating motorcycle accident stripped Evan of icon status. Now ready to make a comeback, the former pop star must confront the demons in his past and convince Insignia Braff Music he’s more than a has-been. Drawn to Claire’s passion, Evan allows her into his guarded heart.

Revealing his painful secrets will cement her reputation. Little does Claire know that immersing herself in Evan’s life will cause her to question herself. As the days pass, Claire’s heart and head take sides.

The love of her life? Or the story of her life? She can’t have both.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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BETRAYAL
by Kim Amburn

Release Date: August 21, 2009

Word Count: Novel (228 pages)

Subgenre: Romantic Suspense, Spicy

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $6.00

Description: The last thing Louisville corporate attorney Becca Ellis expects to find when she makes an emergency trip home is her sister’s body hanging naked in her bedroom. The sheriff says its suicide, but Becca knows better–and what’s all this about Elizabeth willing the famly home and its contents to the new church in town?

When Mac Holt left the army to care for his dying mother, he never expected to see Becca Ellis again. He’d betrayed her fourteen years ago, and knew it. But when no one else will help her find out what happened to her sister, and someone tries to kill Becca, too, Mac feels he owes it to her to step in and keep her safe for as long as she’s in Sedgefield—whether Becca wants him around or not.

Will they discover the truth about Elizabeth’s killer, the past, and their feelings for each other before time runs out?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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THE DRAGON AND THE ROSE
by Gini Rifkin

Release Date: August 21, 2009

Word Count: Novel (384 pages)

Subgenre: Historical, Fantasy, Sensual

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $6.00

Description: He was the Dragon of Normandy. She was the Rose of Flanders. They met in the North of England and together they changed the course of hearts and history. Sir Branoc Valtaigne, ordered to Northumbria by King William II, fights to keep peace along the Scottish border. He is a formidable battle-tested warrior, but as he honors his vows to God, king, and country–a young woman’s smile proves to be his undoing. Martanzia Verheire, tricked into standing as good faith hostage for Flanders, seeks freedom from castle Bamburgh and love from Sir Branoc. As she clings to the Celtic dragon statue given to her by her mother, she leads them all to the brink of an era where true magic will be gone forever but where dreams can still come true.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

THE WILDER ROSE PRESS:

HOT HIGHLAND FLING
by Eliza March

Release Date: August 20, 2009

Word Count: Novella (62 pages)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Erotica

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $1.80

Description: Ailsa Jackson is finished dating executives. She’s looking for hot sexual fantasies—“all muscle, stamina and no commitment.” When assigned to interview an American CEO, Colin Fitzgerald, who recently inherited lands and a title in Scotland, she tosses her inhibitions aside to research all the old myths about brawny Highlanders and answer the old burning question—what is under a Scotsman’s kilt?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

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Every effort is made to locate and promote eBook romances at all heat levels from sweet to erotica. If you’re the author of an upcoming release, please considering submitting a blurb about your book using this blog’s Your Chance to Brag! page.

**Finally, please note many romance eBooks on the market today have a high heat level. The individual publisher’s websites may caution readers under the age of 18 to discontinue reading excerpts and other material.

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New eBook Romance Releases 8.17.09

Here’s a round up new and upcoming releases from a variety of eBook romance publishers for the week of August 17, 2009.

The romance novels and short stories below are not a complete listing of every eBook romance published this week, but rather a sampling from different subgenres**. Information is offered direct from the publishers’ websites, so this round-up should not be considered a review of the individual titles.

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING:

BECAUSE OF YOU
by Mari Carr

Release Date: August 18, 2009

Word Count: Category Length Novel

Subgenre: Comtemporary, Romantic Suspense

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.50

Description: Sometimes what you’re looking for is closer than you think.

Jessie’s life is a mess. In the eight hellish months since her husband died in a freak accident, she’s been mugged, her house has been trashed, and now she’s receiving frightening pranks calls. She resists a friend’s offer of a weekend getaway—her grief is still too fresh to consider meeting anyone new.

Then again, since it’s a party for gay men, there won’t be any pressure, right?

ER doctor Caleb James feels perfectly at ease among his gay brother’s friends, but one look at Jessie sparks a sexual tension that’s impossible to ignore. A few drinks and a few hours of conversation later, things move a lot faster than either of them expect. Jessie is left confused and Caleb aches with regret—and love for a woman who is still guarding her heart.

Pressure is the last thing she needs. But as it becomes apparent that her string of misfortunes trace back to her husband’s death, help is what she’s going to get. Caleb’s help…ready or not.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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GRADY’S AWAKENING
by Bianca D’Arc

Release Date: August 18, 2009

Word Count: Novel Plus

Subgenre: SciFi Romance, Red Hots!

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $6.50

Description: An alien warrior discovers what it is to love…and to share.

Alien super soldier Grady Prime’s missions routinely lead him in unexpected directions, but his latest assignment—to kill a rogue warrior—is far beyond routine. This time he meets a woman who embroils him in an adventure of the highest order. Love.

Gina has lived among aliens so long, she’s lost her fear of them. She is undeniably attracted to Grady, even though their respective duties force them apart. Then, on a mission to a far-flung outpost, an encounter with a man from her past leaves her torn between her flaming desire for Grady, and her still-simmering love for an old flame.

Jim and his group of human dissidents live in secret, away from alien patrols. He has responsibilities, and covert operations to manage. But when Gina re-enters his life, only one thing matters—being with her.

Brought together by chance, the three form an alliance that pushes the boundaries of desire and make unexpected connections that could save the human race from alien conquerors…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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THE COWBOY PLAN
by Denise Belinda McDonald

Release Date: August 18, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary, Western Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.50

Description: Big girls don’t cry over a spilled chocolate milkshake—they run like crazy.

Alex Barrett’s all too “real life” sentence is almost over. She’s spent years being a parent to her siblings—and her flaky mother. What was her reward, other than an empty bed? Nothing. And now that she’s almost free, nothing’s exactly what she plans to do. Except have fun.

One minute she’s one of thousands of panting female fans at hotter-than-hot Drew Hartford’s concert. The next, she’s all wet—and so is he. Okay, so it’s only because she dumped a milkshake all over him.

Drew’s meteoric rise to the top of the country charts is fueled by the swooning women who throw themselves at his feet. Alex? She’s different. When their icy paths cross, she doesn’t throw her panties, she beats a hasty retreat. There’s only one way to keep this intriguing lady around long enough to charm her out of those panties: offer her a job she can’t refuse.

Drew may be every female’s definition of a fantasy man, but a paycheck and a roll in the hay do not a relationship make. Besides, Alex is tired of living 24/7 for someone else. Even a someone who’s offering her dreams of happily ever after…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

LYRICAL PRESS:

SIX FOOT HERO
by Shea McMaster

Release Date: August 17, 2009

Word Count: Super Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary Erotica

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $6.50

Description: Sometimes a woman needs a hero.

Nicole Dahl has some hard decisions to make. Trapped by a job and the troubling attentions of a mentor, she breaks free temporarily on an Alaskan vacation. Once there, instead of the soul-searching and relaxation she’d planned, she meets Logan Schafer, a man who erases her loneliness with his strong, skilled hands.

Logan is mesmerized by Nicole’s emerald eyes and beguiling sense of innocence, but he knows their pasts spell trouble for any hope of a future together. He has a prior claim to deal with once and for all, and Nicole’s so-called mentor is a much bigger threat than she realizes.

Will Nicole let him be her hero?

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

ELLORA’S CAVE:

HALF MOON MAGICK
by Liddy Midnight

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Fantasy Romance

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description: The mage Black Isolde has long had visions of a gorgeous, sexy man. When he appears in the flesh, she can’t be certain whether he’s the man of her dreams or a nightmare of the worst kind—a Dark Mage.

Harmon has devoted his life to the destruction of Dark Mages. His work has required him to walk a knife-edge between darkness and light. Isolde’s purity balances the shadows he’s acquired, but he may have spent too long in the darkness to ever be free of its taint.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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SWEET TART
by Kris Starr

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Contemporary

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description: Office romances are a big ol’ no-no for Abigail Duncan, once badly burned by a workplace fling. Since then, she’s sworn off men in general and especially those she works with.

It’s a damn shame because Abbie’s coworker Sebastian McCallum is the hottest thing she’s ever seen—and he’s completely off limits! But when her best friend Mimi throws a “naughty edibles” party and Seb turns out to be one of the guests, Abbie decides that, coworker or not, Seb is on the evening’s menu.

Dirty candy is the order of the day and Abbie learns it’s okay to take chances in lust and love.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

LIQUID SILVER BOOKS:

VALUABLE CARGO
by Paige Tyler

Release Date: August 17, 2009

Word Count: Novel Length

Subgenre: SciFi Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, Rocketbook

Price: $5.95

Description: When Tanna Aldrick and her all-female crew stumble upon a spaceship floating in the middle of nowhere, what they discover is more valuable than anything they could have ever imagined finding – a gorgeous hunk of a man from the twenty-second century, perfectly preserved in cryogenic suspension.

Garrick Carlisle wakes up after seven-hundred years in hypersleep to find that everything and everyone he knew is gone. The only thing that keeps him from completely losing it is the beautiful and sexy, dark-haired ship’s captain who rescued him.

A man like him would bring a high price on the slave blocks and there are a lot of people willing to do anything to get their hands on him. How far will Tanna go to protect her valuable cargo and what will Garrick do to stay with the woman he has come to love?

Free excerpt available at the author’s website.

RED ROSE PUBLISHING:

SOUL MATE
by Catherine Bybee

Release Date: August 13, 2009

Word Count: Novella (15.5K words)

Subgenre: Shapeshifter, Paranormal, Hot

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $2.99

Description:

Kari Pearce lives the life of a lone werewolf. No one knows of her affliction, not even her sister. When she hears of a missing child up in the Sequoias, Kari goes on the hunt to find the child and her abductor before tragedy can occur. Saving the child is easy, avoiding the FBI agent associated with the case, is not.

Agent Nick Murdock knows he’s seen Kari before but damn if he can remember where. There’s one thing he knows for sure. Kari Pearce with her blonde hair and piercing blue eyes is hiding something. And Nick is going to find out what.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

THE WILD ROSE PRESS:

FINDING HOPE
by Katie Reus

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novel (196 pages)

Subgenre: Romantic Suspense, Spicy

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $4.50

Description: Twenty three years ago, Luke Romanov’s childhood playmate disappeared without a trace. He’s never stopped blaming himself. When the family he works for hires a woman identical to his childhood friend, he’ll stop at nothing to discover her true identity, even if it means betraying her.

What few memories photographer Hope Jennings has of her past aren’t pretty. The monsters from her nightmares make it impossible to completely erase her violent history, but she’s living her life one day at a time. Hired to photograph a wealthy family’s ancestral home in the Caribbean, she expects to work hard, get the job done, and go home.

Instead, Hope finds unexpected passion in the arms of the family’s sexy and dangerous security expert, who has the power to destroy the safe life she’s built for herself. When someone from her past targets her to die, Hope doesn’t know who to trust.

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Every effort is made to locate and promote eBook romances at all heat levels from sweet to erotica. If you’re the author of an upcoming release, please considering submitting a blurb about your book using this blog’s Your Chance to Brag! page.

**Finally, please note the majority of romance eBooks on the market today have a high heat level. The individual publisher’s websites may caution readers under the age of 18 to discontinue reading excerpts and other material.

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New eBook Romance Releases 8.10.09

Here’s a round up new and upcoming releases from a variety of eBook romance publishers for the week of August 10, 2009.

The romance novels and short stories below are not a complete listing of every eBook romance published this week, but rather a sampling from different subgenres**. Information is offered direct from the publishers’ websites, so this round-up should not be considered a review of the individual titles.

THE WILD ROSE PRESS:

THE COBRA MURDERS
by Jane Greenhill

Release Date: August 7, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Romantic Suspense, Spicy

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $6.00

Description: Homicide Detective Simon Keirsey spends his spare time working a personal cold case–the unsolved murder of his mother, film star Mary Margaret, thirty years earlier.

Recent killings committed by the murderer the press has dubbed The Cobra Killer unexpectedly tie to his mother’s death and give Simon a renewed sense of vengeance.

Mary Margaret’s mansion now houses the town’s museum and employee Alice McClure is comforted by the ghost who walks the halls humming 1980’s tunes.

As Simon and Alice race against time to determine who the killer is, will they be able to solve the mystery before another victim is claimed and the murderer’s personal vendetta ante is upped?

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING:

GYPSY LEGACY: THE EARL
by Denise Patrick

Release Date: August 11, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Historical Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.50

Description: A panther. A prince. A promise. Can destiny tie the knot?

During a magical childhood summer, a gypsy woman gave Lady Amanda Cookeson a black panther statuette, promising that the man who came to claim it would also claim her heart. Amanda believes the Earl of Wynton is the prince she has awaited. Yet his reluctance to declare them anything more than friends leaves her wondering if she waited in vain.

If he wasn’t the last of his line, Jon Kenton, Earl of Wynton, wouldn’t marry at all. Since leaving his inheritance to the Crown is out of the question, however, he is compelled to search for the statuette his great-grandmother promised him. His quest leaves him empty handed—and secretly relieved. Finding the statuette would mean embracing the gypsy roots he has long denied.

Amanda is perfect countess material: lovely, admirable and—he thinks—statueless. Their passion is unquenchable…until the gypsy magic Jon thought he’d buried nearly destroys his future with Amanda.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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LUCK BE DELANIE
by Shelli Stevens

Release Date: August 11, 2009

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Contemporary Romance, Red Hots!

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $3.50

Description: He’s lured her to paradise…and she’s about to discover the price.

Long ago, Delanie made one gigantic mistake. Or committed one small felony, depending on how you look at it. Stealing a coin from a sexy stranger was just a prank to help a sorority sister get revenge. The sleeping with him part was totally unplanned. Yet she holds the memory of that one intense, passionate connection close to her heart—like the coin she still wears around her neck.

Six years later, she’s invited to a beautiful resort in the San Juan Islands to not only accept a donation for an abused women’s shelter, but to consider a job opportunity as well. Instead, she finds herself face-to-face with her past.

Grant has always suspected Delanie stole his rare, lucky coin. He just never knew why—or why she disappeared the morning after their hot night together. After spending years looking for her, he’s lured her right where he wants her. He’ll have his answers, come hell or high water.

And, if things go his way, he’ll have Delanie, too.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

CERRIDWEN PRESS:

SHADOWS THROUGH TIME
by Madeline Baker

Release Date: August 13, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Time Travel, Paranormal, Historical Romance

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket (including Kindle)

Price: $6.99

Description: Kelsey St. James is a city girl through and through, unable to understand her grandfather’s fascination with the old West. She likes Starbucks and Donna Karan and would’ve made a lousy pioneer. It’s too bad, then, that she manages to step through a portal in time that takes her back to the old West—and straight into the arms of a tall, dark stranger.

T.K. Reese is a half-breed gambler with a price on his head. The last thing he was looking for was a woman, let alone one wearing tight, bright pink breeches. But before he knows it, he’s looking after Kelsey, teaching her to play poker and rescuing her from thugs.

Somewhere along the way, they find themselves falling in love. But Kelsey doesn’t belong in Reese’s world any more than he belongs in hers. They’re forced to face the possibility that their love is nothing more than a shadow through time.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

ELLORA’S CAVE:

CREAMY – LICKETY SPLIT
by Amarinda Jones

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Contemporary

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description:What do sex and ice cream have in common? Waverly Astor is about to learn the hard way when she finds herself trapped in a freezer with the hottest hunk she has ever seen. Can lust compete with her true love of ice cream? Is having sex with the hard-bodied god a good idea when they have nothing but hot bodies in common?

Tor Arnett is more than happy to heat up Waverley’s life. She is sex on a stick and he wants to lick every part of her delicious body. The lady is most definitely willing. He has two things on his to-do list—catching a thief and sex with a beautiful woman. Not necessarily in that order.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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PARADISE IN CHAINS
by Mai Ling

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Short Novel

Subgenre: Light Bondage, Contemporary

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.20

Description: She craves a man’s attention… Strong and independent, Georgia longs for love but has failed to meet her equal. Unwilling to settle for a life without passion, she sets a course for Bonkaur Island and the kind of toe-curling sex she’s only read about.

He fulfills sexual fantasies… CEO of Bonkaur Island Fantasy Resort, Jay has imagined Georgia in his bed, and in his life, since he first set eyes on her as a naïve college freshman. When she applies to his resort, asking for a week as a sexual submissive, Jay stacks the deck and plays to be her partner in a sensual game.

When Georgia experiences the attention and heat of true attraction, she yields to Jay’s every command. But before long, it’s the Master who becomes enslaved.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

RED ROSE PUBLISHING:

DOUBLE OUT AND BACK
by Lisa Lipkind Leibow

Release Date: August 13, 2009

Word Count: Novel

Subgenre: Contemporary, Chick Lit, Interracial/Multicultural

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $5.99

Description: Not every woman who rides the fertility treatment roller coaster winds up like Octomom!

Who will find friends, family, and fertility?

Three women’s lives are intricately intertwined, as Amelia Schwartz and Summer Curtis struggle with the complex dynamics of intrafamily embryo adoption, and Chandy Markum strives to make her patients’ dreams a reality. They must confront the painful reality that, no matter what technology humans devise to manipulate reproduction, prolong life, and construct family units, they have not yet mastered control over their beginnings and endings.

Free excerpt available at publisher’s website.

WHITE ROSE PUBLISHING:

IT HAPPENED ONE HURRICANE
by Carla Rossi

Release Date: August 7, 2009

Word Count: Novelette (41 pages)

Subgenre: Sweet, Inspirational

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $2.00

Description: When Pittsburgh native Amber Kensington moves to the Texas Gulf coast to take a job, hurricane season is the last thing on her mind. That is until a massive storm named Ike appears, destined to make a direct hit just miles from her apartment. Evacuation is the answer, but what happens when your car won’t cooperate?

Alex Clarke has seen his share of tropical weather, but it never gets any easier. A childhood experience with lightning has left him fearful of storms. Still, his greatest desire is to participate in his church’s outreach program and assist hurricane victims. Now he’s discovered his new neighbor is stranded. Can he convince her to go with him? And can Amber and Alex find God’s comfort and healing despite the raging storm?

LIQUID SILVER BOOKS:

HER WOLF
by Rebecca Royce

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novel Length

Subgenre: Shapeshifter Paranormal Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, Rocketbook

Price: $5.95

Description: Ashlee Morrison has a secret obsession—with a dark and mysterious male. The only problem is that he’s a wolf and she’s becoming convinced that she’s insane. But Ashlee’s wolf is no ordinary canine; he is Tristan Kane, third son in the royal family of the Westervelt Wolf pack.

Trapped in his wolf form by his evil father’s men, Tristan has desperately sought a way out of predicament and is shocked to find that the sad but beautiful redhead who has come to the wolf cage can not only hear him, but awakens in him the knowledge that she is his mate, the other half of his soul.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

RED SAGE PUBLISHING:

TO TOUCH A WOMAN
by Alice Gaines

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Historical, Me’nage a Trois, Paranormal

Formats Available: PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket

Price: $4.50

Description: Edward and Margaret Sinclair are very much in love and would be deliriously happy in their marriage except for one thing – as good Victorians, neither have had much experience with the marital act. As a result, sex is painful for Margaret and frustrating for Edward. They encounter a mysterious stranger named Trey who may be able to help them solve their problem. However, both husband and stranger will have to make love to Margaret if Edward is to learn how to touch his woman.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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Every effort is made to locate and promote eBook romances at all heat levels from sweet to erotica. If you’re the author of an upcoming release, please considering submitting a blurb about your book using this blog’s Your Chance to Brag! page.

**Finally, please note the majority of romance eBooks on the market today have a high heat level. The individual publisher’s websites may caution readers under the age of 18 to discontinue reading excerpts and other material.

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Romance Novel Trailers for a Sunday Afternoon 8.9.09

Nothing on TV today? Well then, kick back and enjoy these fabulous romance novel trailers for current and upcoming eBook releases.

Bonded by Need by Nina Pierce

Ellora’s Cave ~ August 7, 2009

Amarinda Jones Compilation Trailer
for Several Romance Novels

Though it doesn’t promote a current release, this and two other trailers about the author were recently uploaded to YouTube. Because they’re so well done, I believed at least one of them deserved a posting here.

Soul Mate by Catherine Bybee

Red Rose ~ August 20, 2009

Discovery in Passion by Shiela Stewart

Breathless Press ~ September 1, 2009

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
By Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

Quirk Press ~ September 15, 2009

Guilty. You caught me. This isn’t an eBook release. I’m not even certain it’s a romance in this present incarnation. But the trailer is brilliant.

Would you like to see your trailer here next Sunday?

Send me the link to your trailer on YouTube or Google Video. I’m especially interested in including some trailers from the sweeter side, as well as romantic suspense and urban fantasy.

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New eBook Romance Releases 8.3.09

Here’s a round up new and upcoming releases from a variety of eBook romance publishers for the week of August 3, 2009.

The romance novels and short stories below are not a complete listing of every eBook romance published this week, but rather a sampling from different subgenres**. Information is offered direct from the publishers’ websites, so this round-up should not be considered a review of the individual titles.

ELLORA’S CAVE:

HALLIE’S CATS
by Fran Lee

Release Date: Current New Release

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Shape Shifter, Erotic

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.45

Description: Hallie James loves cats—she just never realized she was one herself. Not until she met delicious leopard shifters Gar and Cal, one sinfully dark, one beautifully golden.

A terrifying meeting with a runaway pit bull lands her on her butt on the sidewalk. But when the dog’s owners appear out of nowhere, asking if she’s all right, Hallie has the most shocking reaction to their mouthwatering…scent!

Cat pheromones are powerful, and Gar and Cal’s attraction to the human is as instant as hers is to them. Hallie finds herself caught between two cats—hot and hard Gar, and his hot and delicious little brother Cal. When a gal is confronted with such a succulent choice, why not enjoy the fact that cats aren’t monogamous?

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BAD KITTY
by Debra Glass

Release Date: August 5, 2009 (Please note: though a page is not yet available on the publisher’s website for this title, it is listed in their catalog as being available on Wednesday, the 5th. The link here is to the Ellora’s Cave’s new eBooks page.)

Word Count: Short Novel

Subgenre: Regency, Light BDSM

Formats Available: PDF (SonyReader), HTML (including Kindle), MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $5.20

Description: Bram Barclay is the scandal of London society, sought out by ladies of the ton who enjoy his brand of pleasurable punishments. That’s why he cannot comprehend why innocent Lady Katrina Hartford has disguised herself as Kitty Hartley, taking a position as a maid at his estate. When he attempts to ferret out her secret, he finds her a willing servant, indeed.

No one knows scathing social columnist Alistair Allenby is Kitty’s nom de plume—or that she’s writing an article to expose Bram. But as she submits to his torturous toys, it’s Kitty who is exposed, indulging her unspoken desires to find true freedom, power…and love.

HARLEQUIN:

EYE OF THE STORM
by Delilah Devlin

Release Date: August, 2009

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Spice Brief, Erotic

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, MS Reader & Mobipocket at publisher’s website. Kindle, iPod and iPhone at amazon.com.

Price: $2.99

Description: One year ago, Marcus healed Janie’s broken heart with his love. Now she has returned to Jamaica to see if their passion is as strong as before. Then Marcus’s friend Cade shows up, too. Janie never really liked Cade, but when Marcus asks her to take them both to her bedroom, Janie soon learns that the two men know exactly what she needs….

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HELL’S ANGEL
by Cathryn Fox

Release Date: August, 2009

Word Count: Novella

Subgenre: Paranormal Erotic

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, MS Reader & Mobipocket at publisher’s website. Kindle, iPod and iPhone at amazon.com.

Price: $2.99

Description: Brand suffered for decades in Hell after his best friend managed to escape the underworld and left him behind. So when Lucifer offers him a chance at revenge by seducing his friend’s mortal daughter and marking her for Hell, Brand eagerly accepts.

But Kaylea is a rare pure soul and awakens long-forgotten feelings in Brand—as well as his desire. She may be the key to Brand’s salvation…if their passion doesn’t doom her first…

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING:

LOVE ME KNOTS
by Dee Tenorio

Release Date: August 4, 2009

Word Count: Category (35K to 60K words)

Subgenre: Contemporary, Red Hots!

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $4.50

Description: Nothing twists you up quite like love…When she interrupts what looks like a tryst in her fiancé’s office, former heiress Krista James has only one thought: “It’s over!” True, they both signed a marriage contract that didn’t include a love clause. But she’ll be damned if she gives the two-timer the satisfaction of knowing she gave up her heart along with her hand.

How to say goodbye to a man who makes her forget her own name in bed, and all her principles everywhere else? Simple. Run.

CPA-on-the-rise David Ellison thinks everything is perfect. Perfectly planned, perfectly ordered, perfectly moving forward. Until he arrives late—again—for a lunch date. Suddenly he has a broken engagement, a guilty receptionist and a missing fiancée. Tracking her down is easy. She’s traded their honeymoon tickets for a luxury holiday for one. Reasoning with her? Impossible. Especially since they always seem to end up in bed, in the shower, on the floor…everywhere but at an understanding.

David didn’t follow his woman all the way to Tahiti to return home empty-handed. To get her back, he’s even prepared to empty his heart of all his secrets. Question is…is he prepared for hers?

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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MORTAL COMPASS
by Ann Cory

Release Date: August 4, 2009

Word Count: Short Story (12K to 18K Words)

Subgenre: Paranormal Romance

Formats Available: Adobe PDF (SonyReader), HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, (including Kindle), Rocketbook

Price: $2.50

Description: There’s always a choice…even if the options are deadly.

Rook Vasser hunts with the fate of his vampire clan riding on his shoulders. Without the clan’s stolen moonstone, an all-out war and his leader’s death are inevitable. Acting on a tip, he heads deep into the Blood Mountains, confident the stone is within his grasp. He doesn’t expect to find it hanging around the neck of a beautiful mortal—or that it will be nearly impossible to get it away from her.

Ember Chalane came to the mountains to recharge her critically low healing powers. The lovely stone she finds lying in the grass is more than a shiny trinket. She discovers it restores and enhances her empathic ability, flooding her body with fresh life force she’s unwilling to give up—not even to the dark, sexy vampire who wants it back.

Rook tries everything to get his hands on the stone, including seduction…only to learn that not only does it protect her from his bite, without it she becomes dangerously sick. With time running out, Rook faces the darkest of choices—save his falling clan, or save the woman for whom he’s fallen.

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

LYRICAL PRESS:

EARTHMAN’S BRIDE
by Icy Snow Blackstone

Release Date: August 3, 2009

Word Count: Novel Length

Subgenre: Sci-Fi/Futuristic Romance

Formats Available: ePub, Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $5.50

Description: Rebeka’s orders are to marry, then betray–but love gets in the way.

For thirty years, Rebeka Spearman’s people have been at war with the invading Earthmen who took over her planet and took possession of its wealth. Now her father, Alcin, devises a plan to end the conflict. Under a flag of truth, he offers Rebeka in marriage to Philip Hamilcar, the current Terran leader.

Unknown to Philip, she and her android bodyguard have a hidden agenda: to kill him and destroy the invaders from within. What no one knows is that Darius, the android, has an empath chip within his artificial intelligence system, allowing him to feel emotions.

Now a love triangle is on the rise between three very different hearts. War, betrayal and passion collide–can they untangle their choices in time?

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

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SHATTERED
by Erika Scott

Release Date: August 3, 2009

Word Count: Quick Read

Subgenre: Romantic Suspense

Formats Available: ePub, Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $1.50

Description: Do you really know the people you love?

Karen Ferguson has it all. She’s on the verge of graduating, has an enormous trust fund, and she’s newly married to a gorgeous man. Life is wonderful until a letter arrives for her husband Tony: His mother has died and he’s inherited a run-down but beautiful country house.

Karen expected Tony to be upset. He wasn’t. In fact, Tony’s curious reaction to his mother’s death bothers Karen so much that she goes in search of answers. Once she unearths the first clues at the farmhouse, she begins to wish she’d left well enough alone. But it’s too late, and what she discovers will forever change the way Karen looks at life, at men, and especially her husband…

Free excerpt available at the publisher’s website.

THE WILD ROSE PRESS (INCLUDING WILDER ROSES):

HIS WEEKEND PROPOSAL
by Alexa Grayson

Release Date: August 5, 2009

Word Count: Short Novel (160 pages)

Subgenre: Sweet Contemporary

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: Not yet listed.

Description: When fledging London reporter, Lindsay Wyngate, is handed the assignment of her life – to write an article about handsome oil magnate Trevor Carlton, she is intrigued to learn that the interview requires her to spend a long summer weekend at Trevor’s Yorkshire country estate. The intrigue intensifies as Trevor escorts Lindsay around the grounds of his rambling estate. Despite a nearly disastrous horseback ride, their mutual attraction deepens at the society event of the summer. What starts out as a chance to further her career by interviewing a mysterious man, who distrusts her as much as she distrusts him, turns into more. Will Lindsay’s discoveries about Trevor’s private life and business unexpectedly change his life – and hers – forever?

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KILT WORTHY
by Catherine Bybee

Release Date: August 7, 2009

Word Count: Novelette (39 pages)

Subgenre: Spicy Paranormal, Time Travel (Wilder Rose Catalog)

Formats Available: Adobe PDF, HTML, MS Reader

Price: $2.00

Description: Peering at the world from behind her camera lens, “Plain Jane” Parker is stunned to see a handsome hunk wearing a kilt as he confidently strolls down a busy Seattle street. Her dormant libido roars to life even before their eyes meet. Aroused and intrigued, she tosses aside her usual caution and follows when Logan MacLaren beckons for a delightfully sinful one-night stand.

Logan is an exceptionally talented lover, wielding the abundant sword he sports beneath his plaid to deliver unparalleled pleasures. He reminds her to trust her instincts after reality proves they’re a more perfect fit than either imagined.

Then Logan drops his bombshell: He’s traveled through time to find her, and wants her to stay with him forever…in medieval Scotland. Did Jane just have the most erotic sex of her life with a delusional crazy man, or is it truly possible for her one-night stand to last forever?

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Every effort is made to locate and promote eBook romances at all heat levels from sweet to erotica. If you’re the author of an upcoming release, please considering submitting a blurb about your book using this blog’s Your Chance to Brag! page.

**Finally, please note the majority of romance eBooks on the market today have a high heat level. The individual publisher’s websites may caution readers under the age of 18 to discontinue reading excerpts and other material.

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