Romance

Heartwarming classic holiday novellas from two leading ladies of romantic fiction.
In Kay Hooper’s Holiday Spirit, a matchmaking grandmother and three Christmas ghosts arrange a sensuous reunion for a headstrong noblewoman and her seductive former fiance.
And in Surrender, Lisa Kleypas has a beautiful, aristocratic Bostonian discover the true meaning of giving when se falls tenderly and passionately in love with a troubled stranger, her husband

A SICILIAN MARRAIGE by Michelle Reid – Sicilian billionaire Rafael Moteleone is determined to salvage his marriage. Nina doesn’t want a Christmas reconciliation, but Rafael is very persuasive.
THE ITALIAN’S BLACKMAILED BRIDE by Jane Porter – Emily Pelosi has been trying to get her revenge on sexy Italian millionaire Tristano Ferre for five years. But now the tables have turned and Tristano is not letting Emily go until he gets all that he’s owed.
THE SULTAN’S SEDUCTION by Susan Stephens – Lizzie Palmer is forced to spend Christmas with Ruthless billionaire Kemal Volkan. Even though Lizzie has never experienced passion like this, she’s determined to escape. But Kemal has other plans for Lizzie.

Readers who like their romances hot, hotter, and hottest will be happy to go off-road with the sexy bad boys in this anthology, who know just how to penetrate the defenses of even the most determined woman. Headhunter Jane Duvall gets much more than she bargained for in Shannon McKenna’s “Meltdown,” as she goes undercover to meet sexy hotel CEO Mac MacNamara. He knows she’s lying, but his tour of the hotel’s private suite is going to drive them both crazy. In “Exposed,” by Donna Kauffman, it’s Delilah Hudson, a woman intent on being alone, who is pursued by professional photographer Austin Morgan on a train stranded in a blizzard. Finally, in “Pure Ginger,” PR woman Ginger Cameron disguises herself in orthopedic shoes and sedate suits in order to get her life back under control, but not if Cal Beaumann has anything to say about it. Ginger Curwen

When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her and that their future will be a reassuring continuation of their past. But the boy who joined the RAF has come back a man, and a man irrevocably changed by the horrors that he has seen. Unable to settle back into the sleepy seaside village, George resolves to spend a year on the family farm in Argentina, and, despite her disappointment, Rita promises to wait for him.
Rita keeps her promise. But for George there are irresistible temptations, and an agonising choice to make …

Kiss River — where secrets give way to the amazing power of love.
Gina Higgins has come to the Outer Banks of North Carolina — a stranger with a secret. But secrets are a fact of life in the close-knit community of Kiss River . . .
Kiss River’s historic nineteenth-century lighthouse has all but fallen into the sea, taking with it the huge Fresnel lens that once served as its beacon. Gina is desperate to find a way to raise the lens from the sea: the glass holds the key to her future, her fortune and her only chance to save the one person who matters to her.

Katherine, Charlotte and Esme – three girls seeking escape. Each of them is captivated by the idea of a travelling theatre; each is pretending to be someone she is not; all are in love with the same man.

Thank heaven she was forewarned!
Benedict Peters was macho, tall and lean, and exuded raw sensuality. If Sara hadn’t known how cruel he could be to women – hadn’t he devastated her best friend? – she’d have fallen for him hook, line and sinker.
But her escalating singing career made it impossible – and imprudent – to avoid
him. For he was England’s top musical writer and producer. His songs were perfect for her .

The SS Karachi , steaming from Bombay to England just after WW I, is the mise-en-scene for this formulaic, though entertaining, novel by the author of A Season of Goodwill. Captain Angus Meiklejohn, faithful to his wife and burdened by concern for his shell-shocked son in Scotland, seems an unlikely candidate for shipboard romance. Yet, before the 25-day trip ends, he has a liaison with an attractive young widow in first class. The ship’s doctor, Edmund Bladon, his professional and personal prospects blighted by his conscientious-objector status during the war, also has a strange romance, thwarted by violence, with one of two convent-schooled sisters given to religious hyperventilation. Much goes on below decks as well, from sabotage to heroism, especially that of an Irish steward who expurgates his anti-English feelings. Characters from stowaways to diplomats come to turning points in their lives before the beleaguered “ship of fools” makes home port.

For the duration of the Second World War, the island of Brute has been home to flame-haired Mollie McCabe, her mother, sister and two brothers. But when the was is over, and her brutal, bullying father comes to take his family back to Glasgow, it is only her sister Senga who returns with him. For the rest have fallen for the delights of the Westervoe Farm, and have no intention of swapping the countryside for the city.

Laurie Davison doesn’t dare to peek into the future. Alone and afraid, facing a life-threatening illness, her present is a nightmare and her past a shattered dream. A married lover, a New Age mother, a host of modern hang-ups, and now the ‘big one’. But as Laurie discovers, the present is not the whole story. Packed off to Crompton Hall, a mysterious clinic, she is quickly drawn into another reality.