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| The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio AxelrodStarring: Musician Antonia Bennette -- a.k.a. "Toni B." -- a rising star in Philly's indie music scene, and Sebastian "Seb" Quick, her childhood best friend (and teenage crush) who broke her heart when he left their rural Pennsylvania hometown and never looked back.
What happens: Toni's latest gig as a replacement guitarist for the up-and-coming band The Lillys reunites her with Seb, the group's manager.
Did you know? Author and musician Xio Axelrod recorded a single, "I Burn," to accompany this book, the 1st in a planned series. |
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| Twice Shy by Sarah HogleMeet: Maybell Parrish, 31-year-old theme park employee, hopeless romantic, and...heiress?
What happens: When Maybell inherits 50 percent of her great aunt's sprawling but dilapidated estate in Tennessee, she must share her new home with its co-owner, gruff groundskeeper Wesley Koehler.
Why you might like it: Upbeat and sugar sweet, this novel by the author of You Deserve Each Other offers a slow-burning opposites-attract romance between likable leads. |
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| To Love and to Loathe by Martha WatersThe participants: longtime adversaries Diana Bourne, Lady Templeton, and Jeremy Overington, the Marquess of Willingham, whose constant bickering masks a smoldering attraction.
The arrangement: a brief affair that will allow Diana to experience the passion she never found with her late husband, and allow Jeremy to receive candid feedback on his skills (or lack thereof?) in the bedroom.
Series alert: To Love and To Loathe is the 2nd entry in the Regency Vows series, which begins with To Have and To Hoax. |
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A Distant Magic
by Mary Jo Putney
Fantasy Romance. En route to a wedding, Jean Macrae, a Scottish woman with a modest talent for magic, is kidnapped by Nikolai Grigorio, a Maltese pirate who harbors a long-simmering grudge against her father. But as Jean and Nikolai spend time together, a simmering attraction ignites -- especially once they discover that their magical powers, when combined, are extraordinary. As partners, Jean and Nikolai embark on a dangerous mission to fight slavery around the world. Fans of Mary Jo Putney's Guardians series will be happy to find that this 3rd stand-alone installment contains a great deal of history in addition to romance.
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Forever Wolf
by Maria Vale
What happens: Arctic wolf Varya Timursdottir, loyal "Shielder" of the Great North Pack's 12th Echelon, defies her pack to save the life of injured lone wolf Eyulf.
Read it for: an emotionally intense love story and detailed world-building that includes a well-developed werewolf culture.
Should you start here? Newcomers to the Legend of All Wolves saga may want to begin with The Last Wolf, which sets up the overarching Pack-Shifter conflict that comes to a head in this 3rd series installment.
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Crystal Gardens
by Amanda Quick
Paranormal Historical. After she's assaulted on the streets of London, psychic investigator Evangeline Ames retreats to the countryside to recuperate. She finds the grounds of nearby Crystal Gardens especially restorative, due to their abundance of psychic energy. She's also drawn -- much to her dismay -- to the estate's enigmatic owner, Lucas Sebastian, who inherited Crystal Gardens after the suspicious death of his uncle. This steamy and suspenseful novel is the 1st volume in the Ladies of Lantern Street series, a loose spin-off of the author's Arcane Society books.
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Kiss of the Spindle
by Nancy Campbell Allen
What it is: This "Steampunk riff on Sleeping Beauty" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is the stand-alone sequel to Beauty and the Clockwork Beast.
What happens: To find the witch who cursed her, Dr. Isla Cooper heads to Jamaica aboard the airship of the dashing Captain Daniel Pickett.
Is it for you? With its paranormal elements and a central romance that's more sweet than steamy, Kiss of the Spindle may appeal to fans of Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series.
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