Category: Romance

Title: Harbor’s End

Author: Claudia Culmone

Publisher: Bonneville Books

Release Date: April 8, 2010

ISBN: 978-1599553580

Size: 176 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover

Genre: Romance (?)

Everyone in the horse world knows Shanyn Tomilson’s name, and every young rider dreams of becoming just like her. But beneath the polish of her professional career, Shanyn is a troubled young woman with an empty and tragic past.

When a health crisis threatens Shanyn’s ability to compete, she moves to a quiet coastal town, ready to accept the fact that her life is over. Instead of being her final resting place, Harbor’s End offers her a new start, and Shanyn discovers the secret to building the life she was never able to have.

Harbor’s End is a vibrant story of love, life, and hope that will offer respite to all who seek it.

Title: Imprints

Author: Rachel Ann Nunes

Publisher: Shadow Mountain

Release Date: April 7, 2010

ISBN: 978-1606412435

Size: 320 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Sometimes what you can’t see means everything.

A young woman is missing. In desperation, her parents turn to Autumn Rain for help. Autumn reads imprints – emotions mysteriously left behind on certain treasured objects. But will this ability enrich her life or destroy it?

Autumn isn’t sure—her life has become far from normal—but or people whole loved ones are missing, her talent might mean the difference between life and death. Even the infuriating Detective Martin has asked for Autumn’s help, though at times she feels more like a suspect than a consultant. Too often Autumn find herself retreating to her antiques shop and the company of her best friend, Jake Ryan, to avoid notice.

But soon more than one woman is missing, and Autumn teams up with private eye Ethan McConnell to investigate their disappearance. Ethan’s attraction to her is a pleasant change from Jake’s frustrating offers of friendship, but once Autumn takes that first step, she sets in motion a series of events that risk not only her own life but the lives of those she cares most about.

Title: Courting Miss Lancaster

Author: Sarah M. Eden

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: March 10, 2010

ISBN:

Size: pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Regency Romance

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Harry Windover adores blonde, green-eyed Athena Lancaster, but alas, a penniless man like himself has no hope of winning a young noblewoman’s hand. To add insult to injury, Athena’s brother-in-law and guardian, the Duke of Kielder, has asked Harry to assist Athena in finding the gentleman of her dreams. But the lovesick Harry is cunning as well: as the weeks pass, he introduces Athena to suitors who are horrifically boring, alarmingly attached to their mothers, downright rude, astoundingly self-absorbed, and utterly ridiculous.

Athena can’t comprehend why she is having so little success meeting eligible and acceptable gentlemen. Indeed, her circle of admirers couldn’t be less admirable–nothing like the loyal, gentle friend she’s found in Harry. But how long can Harry’s scheme be hidden before it is discovered? And what will Athena do when she uncovers Harry’s deception?

Escape into a charming regency world in this delightfully romantic comedy of manners that will entertain you to the very last word.

Title: Everlasting Kiss

Author: Amanda Ashley

Publisher: Zebra

Release Date: January 26, 2010

ISBN: 978-1420104431

Size: 384 pages, 4×6, softcover

Genre: Paranormal Romance

(Caution: May contain objectionable content)

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DESIRE NEVER DIES

Daisy O’Donnell doesn’t get the attraction some women feel for vampires. She likes her men with a pulse. And she’s just met one who’s full of life: Erik Delacourt, the unreasonably sexy man she keeps meeting at a popular L.A. nightclub called the Crypt. She barely knows him, but there’s no resisting the connection she feels…

There’s one important detail Erik hasn’t gotten around to telling her yet. He’s a powerful vampire out to hunt the Blood Thief who is draining young vampires all over the city—and who has just raised the stakes by destroying one of Erik’s friends. To Erik, Daisy is a bright spot of innocence in a world of darkness and menace. He’ll do anything—even lie to her—to keep her safe and pure.

If only he knew that Daisy has something of her own to hide…

Title: A Cold Creek Secret

Author: RaeAnne Thayne

Publisher: Silhouette

Release Date: February 1, 2010

ISBN: 978-0373655076

Size: 224 pages, 4×6, softcover

Genre: Romance

Series: A Cold Creek Homecoming, A Cold Creek Holiday

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Just back from a tour of duty, all Major Brant Western wanted was a hot meal and a warm bed. What he didn’t need was the stunning socialite in disguise who’d just shown up at his family’s Cold Creek ranch. Scandal trailed bad girl Mimi Van Hoyt—aka “Maura”—everywhere she went. But once Brant discovered her secret, how could he turn her away?

Being stranded in the middle of nowhere in a blizzard was not Mimi’s idea of a fun time in the Tetons. Then why was she starting to think this sexy soldier could be more than her shelter from the storm? And the more determined Brant was to protect her and her unborn child, the more she believed that this honorable, irresistible military man was the only man for her.

Title: Divinely Designed

Author: Rachael Renee Anderson

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: December 8, 2009

ISBN: 978-1599553245

Size: 190 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romance

It all begins with calamity, faith, and a flat tire. Seeking liberation from recent heartache, Kennedy Jackson leaves her hometown and moves to Arizona to work as an interior designer. She thinks she is ready for a new start, but her heart still needs some convincing. When she bumps into a handsome stranger on the highway, she starts the ride of her life on a road of divine design that will lead to her dreams if she only has the faith to follow it. This delightful tale by Rachael Anderson combines wit and romance with the reality that change is difficult, but it can bring about some of life s greatest adventures.

Divinely Designed is a sure antidote for gloom and a light-hearted reminder that even the darkest forks in the road can lead somewhere brilliant.

Title: Stay (Tales of Dunham, bk 2)

Author: Moriah Jovan

Publisher: B10 Mediaworx

Release Date: November 27, 2009

ISBN: 978-0-9817696-3-9

Size: 332 pages, Trade paperback

Genre: Romance

Series: The Proviso (bk 1)

Caution: This book contains mature content.

At 12, Vanessa Whittaker defied her family to save 17-year-old bad boy Eric Cipriani from wrongful imprisonment and, possibly, death. She’d hoped for a “thank you” from him, a kiss on the cheek, but before she could grow up and grow curves, he left town.

Fourteen years later, Vanessa is a celebrity chef at the five-star Ozarks resort she built. Eric is the new Chouteau County prosecutor on his way to the White House.

Four hours apart and each tied to their own careers, their worlds have no reason to intersect until a funeral brings Vanessa back to Chouteau County, back to face the man for whom she’d risked so much, the only man she ever wanted—

—the only man she can’t have.

Title: The Ball’s In Her Court

Author: Heather Justesen

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: October 8, 2009

ISBN: 978-1599552347

Size: 256 pages, 5.5×8.5″,softcover

Genre: Romance

Growing up in the foster care system was no picnic, but after being adopted into a loving LDS family, playing college basketball, and launching her career in the software industry, Denise Dewalt finally feels as though she s left her former life behind her. What she doesn t realize is that she must confront her past if she ever wants to move on to a brighter future.

While her search for her biological family isn t an easy one, Denise s biggest fear is that even when she finds her family, she ll have nothing to give Rich, the only man who can see past the tragedies of her childhood. This emotional and inspirational story proves that life is full of unexpected twists and turns especially when it comes to facing your demons, fighting for love, and finding happiness for the future.

Title: A Cold Creek Homecoming

Author: RaeAnne Thayne

Publisher: Silhouette

Release Date: September 1, 2009

ISBN: 978-0373654789

Size: 224 pages, 4.4×6.8, mass market paperback

Genre: Romance

Fifteen years later, Quinn Southerland still hadn’t forgiven Tess Claybourne for treating him like the dirt beneath her boots. But the widowed nurse tending his ailing mother was a world away from the spoiled homecoming queen Quinn had known. Yet she was just as achingly beautiful, still arousing the old bittersweet longing for something he could never have.

Or could he? That fierce attraction still burned between them. This could be their second chance…if they let love lead them where their hearts longed to go….

Title: Right Click

Author: Susan Aylworth

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date:

ISBN: 978-1-59811-731-8

Size: 192 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romance

On the day Sarah Kimball planned to mail out wedding invitations, her fiancé, Kyle, trampled her heart with this confession: his supposedly ex-girlfriend is pregnant, and he’s the father. Talk about shock!

Six months later, Sarah is moving forward as a successful teacher with her own home and a fabulous roommate. Her exasperating yet adoring family members are setting her up with every eligible man within reach—even virtually. Sarah thinks she has everything under control—until a few wrong clicks prove otherwise.

Searching her soul, Sarah confronts deep humiliation and anger over Kyle’s betrayal. As fierce pride claws her from within, she seeks healing through the Savior’s tender mercy. When Sarah meets Craig, who was also badly wounded by love, she finds another chance at happiness—but can both of them leave their painful pasts behind and fully embrace the freeing power of forgiveness?

*Note from LDSP: No, I have nothing to do with this book. We just happened to both choose the same artwork.

Title: Illuminations of the Heart

Author: Joyce DiPastena

Publisher: Leatherwood Press

Release Date: June 22, 2009

ISBN: 978-1935217268

Size: 425 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical Romance

Her heart is lost in that first embrace, her world shaken to its foundations. There is just one problem: her name is not Clothilde. It is Siriol de Calendri.

Trained in the art of illumination in the far-off city of Venice, she is directed by her late brother’s will to the county of Poitou in France, where she enters the guardianship of her brother’s friend, Sir Triston de Brielle. Once in Poitou, Siri hopes to find employment in an illuminator’s shop — until Triston unexpectedly snatches her heart away with a kiss.

Triston is a man of quiet honor and courage, but the guilt he carries for the death of his late wife, Clothilde, has left him numb and hesitant to love again. Worse yet, Siri bears an uncanny resemblance to his lost love. Or does she? Her merry laughter and twinkling eyes are very different from his late wife’s shy smiles and quiet ways. Yet when he gazes into Siri’s face, all he sees is Clothilde.

Then Triston’s past returns to threaten them both. Will his tragic life with Clothilde be repeated with Siri? Trapped between the rivalry of the king’s sons on the one hand and a neighbor out for vengeance on the other, Triston realizes it would be safer to send Siri away. But how can he bear to lose her again?

Siri is determined not to be cast off and not to live in another woman’s shadow. She has illuminated many a priceless book with pen and paint. But can her own vibrant spirit illuminate the darkness in Triston’s soul and make his heart beat for her alone?