Books For You: April 2011
Drawing at the end of this month for a Quaantum Book Club to receive 8 copies of a book displayed here….more books donated by these generous authors each month means more book clubs will win a set of 8.
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THE LIES THAT BIND: A BIBLIOPHILE MYSTERY by Kate Carlisle
NYT Bestselling author Kate Carlisle has donated 8 copies of THE LIES THAT BIND, latest in her best-selling Bibliophile Mysteries series, released by NAL in November, 2010. For more on Kate, visit her website at www.katecarlisle.com
When it comes to rare books and antiquities, Brooklyn Wainwright is a master. Which is why she's returned home to San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class at Bay Area Book Arts. Unfortunately, BABA director Layla Fontaine is a horrendous host who pitches fits and lords over her subordinates. With the help of her beau, British security expert Derek Stone, Brooklyn manages to put up a brave face and endure.
Unfortunately, someone else is not so forgiving. Layla is found dead of a gunshot wound, and Brooklyn is bound and determined to investigate. But when Layla's past ends up intertwined with Derek's, Brooklyn realizes that the case is much more personal than she thought--and that the killer might want to close the book on her for good.
CHOSEN BY BLOOD by Virna DePaul
Debut author Virna DePaul has donated 8 copies of her paranormal romantic suspense, CHOSEN BY BLOOD (A Para-Ops Novel), to be released May 3 from Berkley. For more about Virna, visit her at www.virnadepaul.com
United by fate. Bound by desire.
Five years after the Second Civil War ends, humans and Otherborn— humanlike creatures with superhuman DNA—still struggle for peace. To ensure the continued rights of both, the FBI forms a Para-Ops team with a unique set of skills.
Leader of an Otherborn clan, half-breed vampire Knox Devereaux would do anything to find a cure for the anti-vamp vaccine slowly starving his people into extinction. When the FBI contacts him about leading a team of hand-selected Others on a mission to reclaim the stolen antidote, Knox accepts. His new assignment places him in direct contact with Special Agent Felicia Locke, the beautiful human he’s craved since their very first meeting.
CAPTURED BY A ROGUE LORD by Katharine Ashe
RT Reader’s Choice Nominee and Booklist New Star of Historical Romance, Katharine Ashe, has donated 8 copies of CAPTURED BY A ROGUE LORD, to be released March 29, 2011 from Avon. For more on Katharine, visit www.katharineashe.com
Serena Carlyle dreams of a happily ever after. Firmly on the shelf at twenty-five, instead she is determined to find the perfect match for her beautiful younger sister. What better prospect than their neighbor, the wealthy, rakishly handsome Earl of Savege? Now Serena can beg his help in halting a local band of smugglers. Then, one night, stealing away from yet another disappointing ball, Serena finds herself trapped alone with a stranger …
His kiss was irresistible, his caress unforgettable, and he hides a devastating secret. A Robin Hood upon the sea, Alex Savege is the brazen pirate Redstone, seizing the yachts of spoiled noblemen to settle an old debt. Serena needs a hero, but her heart is in the gravest danger—for it is soon to be captured by a man as skilled at seduction as he is at plunder.
SHADOW TOUCH by Marjorie M. Liu
Bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu has donated 8 copies of SHADOW TOUCH, Book 2 in her Dirk & Steele series. Learn more about Marjorie at www.MarjorieMLiu.com
Elena Baxter can work miracles with her fingers. She can coax bones to knit, flesh to heal. She can mend the soul. She has been doing such work for almost all of her twenty-eight years. That is why she will be taken.
The media called it a rampage of terror, the recent murders. But fighting crime is why Artur Loginov joined Dirk & Steele. The international detective agency specializes in the impossible, and their creed is simple: Help those in need, no matter how difficult, and no matter what, keep the secret safe. For the agency helps its employees, too; people like Artur—the gifted, the tormented. Dirk & Steele gave the Russian emigre purpose, protection, community...and refuge from his past, for who can trust a man who can start a fire with his mind, or shape-shift, or read others’ thoughts as easily as drawing breath? For his similar talent, Artur will be taken.
Into the darkness Elena and Artur will be drawn, into the clutches of evil. Cornered, isolated, caged, they will fight for their very souls. But salvation awaits. it exists in a form least expected: a dream of a face, a brush of a mind, the hint of a kiss, and finally, at long last, a shadow touch.
MIDNIGHT CALLER by Leslie Tentler
Debut suspense author Leslie Tentler has donated 8 copies of MIDNIGHT CALLER, released
Feb 1, 2011 from MIRA Books. For more on Leslie, visit www.leslietentler.com
Late-night radio show psychologist Rain Sommers is used to the crazies who call in to rage from the back alleys of the French Quarter and the shadows of the bayou. But one caller’s chilling obsession with her and her long-ago murdered mother - an iconic singer beloved among the city's Goth community - has even the jaded Rain running scared as a sadistic serial killer known as the Vampire prowls New Orleans.
FBI agent Trevor Rivette is convinced her midnight caller and the killer are one and the same. As it becomes disturbingly clear that the Vampire has a sick bloodlust only Rain can satisfy, she allows Trevor to get closer and closer. But he soon discovers that his secretive past and troubled present are intertwined -- and that he may die trying to keep Rain’s fate out of a madman’s control.
DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS by Jeanne Adams
Romantic Times Top Pick author Jeanne Adams has donated 8 copies of DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS, released September, 2010 by Kensington/Zebra. For more on Jeanne, visit her website, www.JeanneAdams.com
Security expert Gates Bromley's number one priority is protecting billionaire art collector Dav Gianikopolis. But when he joins forces with CIA Agent Ana Burton to trace stolen art in a cold case, Gates finds a major distraction.
After botching an operation that cost her colleagues' lives, Ana is reassigned to cold cases. When she opens Dav's case, which involved five brutal murders and starts asking questions, Ana is almost killed. The forgers want to be sure the cold case stays cold, and dead and they don't mind killing Ana or Gates to keep it that way.
In a race against time, Ana and Gates must untangle the coverups, the lies and forgeries, and find the killer or killers, before they're hit. They also fight their growing attraction - and trust issues - along the way. Will the past stay buried or will the murders keep piling up?
Bestselling author Marjorie M Liu has donated 8 copies of TIGER EYE, Book 1 in her Dirk & Steele series. For more on Marjorie, check out her website at www.MarjorieMLiu.com
He looks completely out of place in Dela Reese’s Beijing hotel room—like the tragic hero of some epic tale, exotic and poignant. He is like nothing from her world, neither his variegated hair nor his feline yellow eyes. Yet Dela has danced through the echo of his soul, and she knows this warrior would obey.
Hari has been used and abused for millennia; he is jaded, dull, tired. But upon his release from the riddle box, Hari sees his new mistress is different. In Dela’s eyes he sees a hidden power. This woman is the key. If only he dares protect, where before he has savaged; love, where before he’s known hate. For Dela, he will dare all.
BLOOD TRINITY by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love
NYT best seller Dianna Love has donated 8 copies of her latest collaboration with #1 NYT best seller Sherrilyn Kenyon. Blood Trinity is the first in a new urban fantasy series, and debuted on the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and Walmart best seller lists. Read an excerpt of BLOOD TRINITY and find out more about the Belador urban fantasy series here.
Atlanta has become the battlefield between human and demon. An outcast among the Beladors, Evalle Kincaid has walked the line between human and beast her whole life.
A cursed warlord’s blood grudge against the Beladors will pit Evalle’s freedom against the survival of the human race.
And only one can win.
"NYT best sellers Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love’s new Belador series explodes onto the urban fantasy scene with a fresh concept, complex world and unique characters wrapped into an emotionally engaging story full of twists." Barbara Vey, Publishers Weekly
Bestselling author Jade Lee has donated 8 copies of WICKED SEDUCTION, released March 1, 2011 by Berkley. For more on Jade, visit her at www.jadeleeauthor.com.
A MAN INTENT ON JUSTICE...
After seven years of battling for survival on a pirate ship, Kit Frazier returns to England to right a wrong and make peace with what he lost. But once in London, he finds himself unexpectedly at sea, caught in his swirling attraction to the beguiling and elusive Maddy.
A WOMAN DETERMINED TO BE FREE...
Maddy will do anything to escape the desperate circumstances of her life, and helping her cousin Rose catch the man of her dreams seems an easy enough task--until Maddy meets the handsome pirate captain Kit. The dashing rogue has only two purposes: to rescue the boy in his care and to seduce Maddy into his bed.
A LOVE WITHOUT END
With each heated encounter, Kit pulls Maddy off her stated course. But when treachery threatens them all, she will have to choose between a respectable future and wicked, wonderful seduction.
