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"Phoebe Somerville outraged everyone by bringing a French poodle and a Hungarian lover to her father's funeral." ~ from Susan Elizabeth Phillips' It Had to Be You
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| Tremaine's True Love by Grace BurrowesRegency Historical. Tremaine St. Michael is a man of business, and only business. But when he approaches the Earl of Bellefonte about an investment, he falls in love with the earl's sister, Lady Nita Haddonfield, an intelligent, strong-willed young woman who exasperates her family with her insistence on providing medical care to the parish poor. Although Nita admires Tremaine, she resists his courtship, fearing that marriage would jeopardize her hard-won independence. Tremaine's True Love is the 1st book in the True Gentlemen series, followed by the forthcoming Daniel's True Desire. |
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| Made for Us: The Shaughnessy Brothers by Samantha ChaseContemporary Romance. Lillian was the rock of the Shaughnessy family, and her untimely death devastated her husband and six children. Years later, they struggle to stick together even as their lives take them in different directions. No one is more invested in preserving family ties than eldest son Aiden, who frets over his siblings' life choices even as his successful construction business leaves him too busy to settle down and start a family of his own. Then interior decorator Zoe Dalton arrives on the scene, providing unnecessary, yet essential, distraction. Set in small-town North Carolina and focusing on a warm, close-knit family, Made for Us is the 1st installment of the Shaughnessy Brothers series. |
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| The CEO Buys In: Wager of Hearts: Book One by Nancy HerknessContemporary Romance. The billionaire founder of a successful electronics corporation, Nathan Trainor is tired of gold-diggers. While drinking with a couple of his fellow one-percenters at the elite Bellwether Club, he proposes a wager: whoever can't find his soul mate (and marry her) within a year must donate a staggering sum of money to charity. Not long after, a flu epidemic sweeps through Trainor Electronics, leaving only office temp Chloe Russell to take care of business...which, in this case, means taking care of her sick boss. Despite his fever, Nathan can see that Chloe isn't the kind of woman who's motivated by money. But does her distaste for corporate culture mean that she would never consider loving a billionaire? The CEO Buys In is the 1st book in a series that follows an entrepreneur, a bestselling author, and a star quarterback in their search for true love. |
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| Brown-Eyed Girl: A Novel by Lisa KleypasContemporary Romance. Although Avery Crosslin's own nuptials were a fiasco -- her fiancé left her at the altar -- she works hard to ensure that her clients experience their dream weddings. While hustling to pull off a million-dollar celebration, she meets Joe Travis, mistaking him for a wedding photographer before discovering that he's a member of one of Houston's wealthiest and most prominent families. Joe pursues Avery, who decides she's game for a sizzling summer fling. However, with a business to run and an important potential client to dazzle, Avery has no plans to start a serious relationship with anyone, not even a hot guy who's starting to make her reconsider her own happily-ever-after. |
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| Dark Skye by Kresley ColeParanormal Romance. "Vrekeners never abandon their hunt." And Thronos Talos, Prince of the Skye, has been hunting Melanthe of the Sorceri for centuries. Childhood friends turned young lovers turned bitter enemies, Thronos and Lanthe have a complicated relationship, to say the least. Can the strength of their passion overcome their mutual antipathy? And is love enough to withstand generations of warfare between their races? Although Dark Skye is the 15th book in the popular, long-running Immortals After Dark series, it stands on its own. Newcomers to this detailed world, which features steamy, dramatic interactions between several complex supernatural cultures, may want to begin at the beginning, with A Hunger Like No Other. |
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| Something About You by Julie JamesContemporary Romance. All assistant U.S. attorney Cameron Lynde wants when she checks into the Peninsula Hotel is a good night's sleep. What she gets is paper thin walls that do nothing to drown out the noise of her next-door neighbors' sex marathon. Cameron's complaint to the front desk prompts the discovery of a corpse and the launch of a federal investigation, which leads to an unexpected reunion with smoldering Special Agent Jack Pallas. Three years ago, Cameron's involvement with an undercover investigation nearly ended Jack's career and life. Still, even the combination of a dead escort, a married senator, and an incriminating videotape can't extinguish the sparks between them. Something About You kicks off the FBI/U.S. Attorney series. |
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| Lord of Darkness by Elizabeth HoytHistorical Romance. Lady Margaret "Megs" St. John has only two reasons for coming to London: one is to consummate her marriage of convenience with her estranged husband, Godric; the other is to enact revenge on the legendary Ghost of St. Giles, the masked man who protects the city's poorest and most vulnerable -- and whom she holds responsible for the death of her lover. The problem? The two men are, in fact, one and the same. Godric idles away his days as a gentleman of leisure and dedicates his evenings to fighting crime, a lifestyle threatened by the unexpected return of Megs, who's determined to conceive his heir before shooting him dead. This passionate 5th installment of the Maiden Lane Romances also "delivers plenty of swashbuckling thrills and wry wit" (Booklist). |
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| It Had to Be You: A Novel by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsContemporary Romance. Not many girls inherit a football team, and not many would expect to. Certainly not New York fashionista Phoebe Somerville, the estranged daughter of the Chicago Stars' deceased owner, who disinherited her when she became the mistress of an artist 40 years her senior -- but later, to everyone's shock, changed his mind. Phoebe doesn't know the first thing about sports, which leads to frequent clashes with handsome head coach Dan Calebow. It Had to Be You serves as a prequel to the 1st (published) book in the Chicago Stars series, This Heart of Mine. |
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| The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia QuinnRegency Historical. Fans of The Duke and I will already be acquainted with Anthony Bridgerton, confirmed bachelor and incorrigible rake. Rumor has it that Anthony has finally decided to tie the knot and that he's got his eye on "the Incomparable" Edwina Sheffield. But Kate Sheffield is determined to protect her younger half-sister from disreputable men such as Anthony, even if it means serving as a human shield against his good looks and roguish charm. Anthony is equally determined that no meddlesome spinster shall stand between him and what he wants -- that is, until he realizes that what he wants is Kate. Readers who enjoy engaging Regency-set romances with large casts of witty characters should enjoy this 2nd sparkling book in the Bridgerton series. |
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