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Naughty and Nice
by Siobhan
Fiction / December 19, 2011
The fire is roaring, you're curled up in a warm, wooly blanket with a cup of hot chocolate... what more could you need to heat things up this holiday season? Hmm, how about a Christmas romance!
Here are a couple of new romance novels from Sourcebooks that'll make you want to hang up mistletoe all round the house.
Lady Sophie's Christmas Wish
by Grace Burrowe, author of The Heir, Soldier and Virtuoso.
A luminous holiday tale of romance, passion, and dreams come true from rising star Grace Burrowes, whose award-winning Regency romances are capturing hearts worldwide.
All she wants is peace and anonymity… Lady Sophie Windham has maneuvered a few days to herself at the ducal mansion in London before she must join her family for Christmas in Kent. Suddenly trapped by a London snowstorm, she finds herself with an abandoned baby and only the assistance of a kind, handsome stranger standing between her and complete disaster.
But Sophie’s holiday is about to heat up… With his estate in ruins, Vim Charpentier sees little to feel festive about this Christmas. His growing attraction for Sophie Windham is the only thing that warms his spirits—but when Sophie’s brothers whisk her away, Vim’s most painful holiday memories are reawakened.
It seems Sophie’s been keeping secrets, and now it will take much more than a mistletoe kiss to make her deepest wishes come true…
Darn Good Cowboy Christmas
by Carolyn Brow, author of Red's Hot Cowboy and Love Drunk Cowboy and Honky Tonk Christmas.
Just in time for Christmas, a scorching-hot cowboy romance from a rising star author.
Carolyn Author of #1 bestselling Christmas romance in 2010 (Honky Tonk Christmas) creates a new installment in her sexy contemporary cowboy romance series that showcases her amazing Southern voice.
Born and raised in a traveling carnival, all Liz Hanson ever wanted for Christmas was a home that didn't have wheels. After she was old enough to date she added one more item: a sexy cowboy.
She'd about given up on Santa ever bringing either one when her father dies and leaves her an ugly house and twenty acres in Texas. Then rancher Raylen O'Donnell walks onto her property.
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Red-Hot and Bone-Chilling: New Paranormal Romances
by Siobhan
October 21, 2011
Sorry, Twilight fans, paranormal romance is not just for teens.
Vampires, werewolves, demons… whichever tall, dark and (of course!) handsome creature strikes your fancy (sucks your blood, whatever), there's a book for you…
So this Halloween, why not curl up with a novel that's red-hot and bone-chilling at the same time? Here are some great new paranormal romances out this Fall...
Never Been Bit by Lydia Dare
"Wickedly sensual! You'll wish you had your own vampyre to make your heart race." —Love Romance Passion, on It Happened One Bite
Also by Lydia Dare:
Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend by Linda Wisdom
"Fireworks explode in this passionate novel by the inventive Wisdom, who incorporates a veritable potpourri of paranormal characters into this fast-paced tale. Humor, danger and steamy sex make for an exciting read. Maggie and Declan burn up the pages." —RT Book Reviews
Also by Linda Wisdom:
Mr. Darcy's Bite by Mary Lydon Simonsen
Having read Mr. Darcy Vampyre, by Amanda Grange and come away with a less than stellar opinion, I was super nervous at reading another Pride and Prejudice fan fiction novel that infused some type of supernatural beings within the plot. Fortunately, Simonsen has made this idea work with Mr. Darcy’s Bite, which seriously impressed me. Unlike another popular vampire work, Twilight, where werewolves appear because of vampires, Simonsen provides an actual realistic explanation for it. The novel is written with fabulous Gothic undertones, creating a dark and spooky reading atmosphere that grips you from cover to cover. The ending was my favorite part! So much so, that I immediately emailed Mary and asked her to write a sequel! [...]
For those of you who are nervous about dipping your toes into the paranormal fan fiction world, may I highly suggest that you start your journey with Mr. Darcy’s Bite? Not only does it top my JAFF list, but it’s pretty high up on my paranormal reading list as well. You won’t be disappointed! —AustenProse.com
Retribution by Sherrilyn Kenyon
by Dan
August 03, 2011
Retribution, the latest Dark-Hunter novel by New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon, was published yesterday, and if you're wondering what all the fuss is about, here's the dramatic trailer for the book:
New title in the Quirk Classic Series: ANDROID KARENINA
by Danielle
February 19, 2010
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina—an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.
As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: The tragic adulterous love affair of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Princess Kitty Shcherbatskaya. These characters live in a steampunk-inspired world of robotic butlers, clumsy automatons, and rudimentary mechanical devices. But when these copper-plated machines begin to revolt against their human masters, our characters must fight back using state-of-the-art 19th-century technology—and a sleek new model of ultra-human cyborgs like nothing the world has ever seen.
Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction.
LEO TOLSTOY wrote two of the greatest novels in world literature: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. BEN H. WINTERS is coauthor of the New York Times Best Seller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which was hailed by The Onion A.V. Club as a “sheer delight” and by Library Journal as “strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria.” Mr. Winters lives in Brooklyn.
The Critics Love Ben H. Winters’s Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters!
“The effect is strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria, and Eugene Smith’s amusing illustrations add an extra touch of bizarre hilarity.”—Library Journal
“Quirk commissioned Ben H. Winters to punch up Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility with man-eating beasts from the briny deep. And once again, to the consternation of purists everywhere, the result is sheer delight.”—The Onion A.V. Club
“It’s a monsterpiece.”—Real Simple
“While preserving the clever dialogue and nuanced love story that drive Sense and Sensibility, Winters skillfully overlays the horror elements, producing another bizarre hybrid that will appeal to the same cult Austen audience as Zombies.”—Booklist
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Other books in the Quirk Classic Series
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Sense and Sensibilty and Sea Monsters
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
