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A Knight for Kallen by Lauren Linwood

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A-Knight-for-Kallen-850Targeted Age Group:: romance readers of any age, especially those who enjoy medievals

Kallen de Mangeron grew up in a convent, her noble family never knowing of her birth. When a new Mother Superior informs them of her existence, they send trusted knight Griffith Sommersby to escort her home.

Griffith’s heart broke when he lost his wife and infant son during childbirth, and he’s kept his feelings locked away from the world—until he meets Kallen. He soon learns her dark secret—that she sees auras around people—which allows her insight into their actions and personalities.

Now Quentin, bastard brother to the king, decides to harness Kallen’s gift in a plot to win the throne. Will Quentin successfully use a kidnapped Kallen as his political pawn, or will Griffith be able to stop him before Kallen changes the course of England’s history?

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I read an article about a woman who could see auras surrounding people. I was intrigued by the idea and created a medieval woman who had the same hidden talent. She is kidnapped by a man wanting to overthrow the king. He believes using her insights into people, via their auras, will guarantee him success.

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Featured Book: Medieval Lovers by Catherine Kean, Laurel O’Donnell, Eliza Knight, Denise Domning

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MEDIEVALLOVERSBoxedSetNew! The MEDIEVAL LOVERS collection includes four full-length medieval romance novels by four bestselling, award-winning romance authors. $0.99 for a limited time.

CHAMPION OF THE HEART: He is an outcast THIEF known as the Black Fox, vowing revenge against those who unjustly stripped his father of his knighthood and lands. She is the PROTECTOR of the orphaned children of her village, promising to bring the Black Fox to justice for his dark deeds. Can Fox uncover the sinister secrets from their past and become the champion of his lady’s heart?

A KNIGHT’S TEMPTATION: A LADY arranges a clandestine meeting to return a stolen pendant. A LORD, determined to attain knighthood, senses the lady keeps valuable secrets and takes her captive. Will their past enmity stand in the way of duty and true love?

THE HIGHLANDER’S TEMPTATION:
Laird Jamie Montgomery is a warrior sent to the Highlands on the orders of William Wallace. Temptation in the form of an alluring lass, could be his undoing. Lady Lorna Sutherland can’t resist Jamie’s charms. Though she’s been forbidden, she breaks every rule for the pleasure of his intoxicating embrace.

AUTUMN’S FLAME:
A HEADSTRONG WOMAN, A SCARRED AND SECRETIVE MAN
TIED TO EACH OTHER BY HER UNBORN CHILD

The newly widowed Elyssa of Freyne vows that no man will ever again control her life…that is, as long as no man discovers she’s pregnant. Geoffrey FitzHenry curses the law that requires him to take the pregnant widow into his custody. Almost from the moment Elyssa arrives, the coppery-haired firebrand begins challenging the pretense the protects his daughter’s life.

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Featured Book: The Soldier’s Secret by Heather Osborne

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TheSoldiersSecretA picture of pure shock and curiosity, Emma placed her empty glass down, “Surely, you are not suggesting I dress as a man and enlist in the Union Army!”
“That is precisely what I am suggesting.”

In an era when women are adornments, Northerner Emma Mansfield finds it challenging to fit the mold. It becomes an impossible task when her country is torn apart by civil war. Knowing she must take action, Emma finds herself in the midst of danger and intrigue when she takes up the guise of a young artillery soldier for the Union Army. Desperately trying to find out if her two brothers are alive, Emma must maintain her anonymity as she fights for survival.

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Featured Book: Magnificent Medieval Romance by Catherine Kean, Kathryn Le Veque, Anna Markland, Laurel O’Donnell

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MagnificentMedievalRomance2D_200px$0.99 for a limited time! The MAGNIFICENT MEDIEVAL ROMANCE boxed set features four full-length medieval romance novels by four award-winning, bestselling romance authors. Books included:

FATAL TRUTHS – ANNA MARKLAND

HE is a powerful Norman nobleman haunted by memories of a troubled past who has sworn never to marry. SHE is a Scottish noblewoman masquerading as nursemaid to her own children. Only lies can keep them alive.

MY LADY’S TREASURE – CATHERINE KEAN

SHE is a lady desperate to save a kidnapped child. HE is a tortured knight seeking redemption. Forming an uneasy alliance, they search for legendary riches and find a treasure worth more than gold.

TENDER IS THE KNIGHT – KATHRYN LE VEQUE

HE is a powerful knight who assumes the mantel of command when his father dies in battle. SHE is the enemy’s daughter, offspring of the man who killed his father. Can their love overcome old hatreds and betrayal from within?

MIDNIGHT SHADOW – LAUREL O’DONNELL

A LADY dons a mask and cloak to right the wrongs and save her people from oppression. A LORD, torn between the woman he longs to trust and the outlaw he has vowed to hang vows to find the truth. Will a legendary hero find love in the arms of her enemy?

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Ballad Beauty by Lauren Linwood

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BalladBeauty400Targeted Age Group:: historical romance readers of any age

After ten years apart, Boston schoolmarm Jenny McShanahan receives a letter from her beloved father that instructs her to join him in Texas. She has no idea that he’s become Famous Sam McShan, the Robin Hood of the West. She arrives to find Sam already gone, but he left instructions for Jenny to hire a guide and rendezvous with him in Nevada.

Texas Ranger Noah Daniel Webster knows Sam personally because his father, Pistol Pete Webber, was Sam’s longtime partner in crime. When Pete is killed during their last big score, Noah requests the assignment to bring Sam to justice. Going undercover, he volunteers to act as Jenny’s escort across the dangerous prairie, using her to track her outlaw father’s location.

As they journey through rough country, love blossoms—but Noah knows the second he arrests Sam, his betrayal will kill Jenny’s love for him. Should the lawman do his duty as a Ranger, or should he let love rule? The choice Noah makes will change their lives forever

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I’m a native Texan and was eager to write a book about a Texas Ranger. I’d written five other historical romance novels, so I thought it was time to write one set in Texas. The Rangers are larger than life, and I thought a Texas Ranger would make for a good hero in a romance novel.

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Featured Book: Broken Dreams by Nancy Pennick

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Two friends…
Blood sisters till the end…
Until they’re not.

One cold night in a boarding school dorm, two fourteen-year-old girls make a blood sister pact. Friends forever. As young schoolgirls, they’re determined to find true love, learning the hits and misses along the way. As graduation nears, the girls have different outlooks for the future. Lucinda longs for adventure. Anna chooses city life and marriage. Finding their way back together, the girls head west for an experience of a lifetime until a handsome cowboy bursts into their lives, changing the course of their friendship forever.

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Featured Book: Across the Sea by C. Lynn Biccum

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Across-the-Sea-Final-CoverOlivia Stonehouse is the daughter of a wealthy English baron who is obsessed with marrying her off to the highest bidder. Instead of accepting her fate she runs away to Virginia, leaving her life of privilege and entering a world of which she knows nothing. Landing in Williamsburg, she meets Jackson, a Powhatan Indian, and Henry Dorset, a fellow Englishman and lodger in her boardinghouse. Neither man is what he seems and she’s not sure who to trust. She finds herself in the middle of a steamy romance, all the while hoping her father doesn’t find her.

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A Bit of Heaven on Earth by Lauren Linwood

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A-Bit-of-Heaven-on-Earth-high-resTargeted Age Group:: romance readers of any age

When Gavin of Ashgrove and his closest friend are captured in a fierce battle during the Hundred Years’ War, their captors demand a hefty ransom from their fathers for their return. Robert is quickly set free, but Gavin’s father refuses to pay for his son’s release, leaving him to rot in a squalid French prison. Aided by a sympathetic priest, he escapes and returns home to England, only to find he has been proclaimed a bastard and disinherited.

With nowhere to turn Gavin journeys to Kentwood, where he fostered as a boy, hoping Lord Aldred will take him on as a knight in his guard. The old warrior is close to death, but he soon realizes Gavin is his son. Aldred plots to have Gavin inherit Kentwood and marry his much younger wife, Elizabeth, a famed and opinionated beauty who remains a virgin after a decade of marriage.

Will the king recognize Lord Aldred’s first request of a marriage between Elizabeth and Robert, uniting Robert’s estate with Kentwood—or will the temperamental Edward reward Aldred’s years of service and honor a dying man’s final request?

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I loved discovering how noblemen captured in war in the Middle Ages would be ransomed back to their families. I began toying with the idea of, “What if a family didn’t send the ransom? What would happen to the prisoner?” That was the seed that began A BIT OF HEAVEN ON EARTH!

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Upon Your Honor by Marie Lavender

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Upon-Your-HonorTargeted Age Group:: 18-65

Deception is a dangerous path…

New York City, August, 1891 – Orphaned after the death of her father, Chloe Waverly stows away on La Voyageur to escape the clutches of her cruel fiancé, Lamonte Beckett. Gabriel Hill, a strange and compelling gentleman, comes upon Chloe and promises to protect her without knowing the true circumstances of why she is running away. During their journey, Gabriel doesn’t bargain on being distracted by her fair beauty or succumbing to her many charms. As their attraction to each other grows, so does the danger and Gabriel suspects things are not as they should be.

Both are determined to get to New Orleans, where she can start a new life. But, once they reach their destination, events spin out of their control and Chloe is captured by the fiancé she escaped. Gabriel is left wondering if he can overlook her betrayal. Soon he finds himself in a race against time, to reach her before Beckett can exact revenge.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Of course, I wanted to continue the story that left off in the first book. There were new characters to visit. Additionally, I couldn’t help writing about a survivor, someone who had come out of a bad situation and became extraordinary in the process. I think there a lot of survivors out there in the world, and they deserve to be recognized.


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Written in the Cards by Lauren Linwood

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WrittenintheCards_850HIGHTargeted Age Group:: historical romance readers

Maggie Rutherford jilts her too-perfect society groom at the altar and flees to the American West, where she turns her travels into dime novels that she writes under the pen name Lud Madison.

Civil War veteran Ben Morgan marries his childhood sweetheart and takes her to homestead on the Great Plains. Losing her in an Indian attack, Ben becomes a roaming gambler. When he kills a cheating opponent in self-defense, the man’s gunslinger brother swears revenge.

After Ben joins a cattle drive and brings in a herd to Abilene, a waiting Maggie interviews him for her next story. Sparks fly as they wind up living in the same household, running a general store east of Abilene. But with Black Tex Lonnegan on his trail, will Ben run from his growing attraction to Maggie and the gunfighter’s promise of death–or will he make a stand for his life–and love?

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I raised my daughter to think for herself and be a little feisty. My heroine Maggie is based upon her. Maggie is smart as a whip and believes she can do anything she sets her mind to, which is something I love about her.

My hero Ben needed to be a man broken, one who thought he’d never love again after his wife’s death. I wrote him to be smart, handsome, caring, and a bit surprised to find he CAN love again–because he’s found his soul mate in Maggie.

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