Coming in 2008
JUNE 2008
This month kicks off the sizzling hot new sex-on-the-beach series from Silhouette Romantic Suspense, SEDUCTION SUMMER. Book one of the three-book series starts out with a bang (well, actually a dead guy) in Nina Bruhns's too-hot-to-handle release KILLER TEMPTATION. Hero Sean Guthrie desperately needs to get a five-star rating for his new business venture, an idyllic bed and breakfast on the South Seas island paradise of Fiji. His fate is in the hands of a beautiful, starry-eyed guidebook evaluator for whom he feels a powerful and inopportune attraction. Can you say blackmail? Unfortunately, from the moment Zoë Conrad steps off the plane, one thing after another goes terribly, terribly wrong. The mysterious disappearance of a yacht, vocal feuding native families, Sean’s untimely arrest for murder... Oh, yeah. And there’s a serial killer on the loose.
Linda Conrad brings you SAFE WITH A STRANGER, Book 1 in the SAFEKEEPER trilogy. Josh Ryan would prefer to deny his family's heritage of Mexican witchcraft. He doesn't even want to think about it. But when woman on the run, Clare Chandler, and her toddler son come into his life, Josh is forced to think twice. Clare would rather die than lose her son. She finds a safe shelter in the arms of a Texas family who share a secret curse-- and a desire to save the children. Josh might be her savior, but he will never be the right man for Clare. Still...when terror and darkness come calling, Clare finds herself Safe With A Stranger.
Debut SRS author Jill Sorenson will release her very first novel, DANGEROUS TO TOUCH.
Sheri Whitefeather has a release from Berkley this month under her Cheri Feather pseudonym, THE ART OF DESIRE. Museum director Mandy Cooper has always been obsessed with nineteenth-century artist Catherine Burke—and the artist’s erotically charged relationship with Atacar, her enthralling American Indian lover. But Mandy’s link to the legendary couple runs deeper than she knows. She’s having a heated affair herself—with Jared Cabrillo, Atacar’s perilously handsome great-great nephew. And the consuming passion Atacar once used to seduce Catherine is now being engaged by Jared. He knows precisely what it takes to move a woman…
Beth Cornelison brings us UNDER FIRE from Samhain Publishing. Research scientist Jackson McKay and his young daughter are kidnapped and taken to a remote mountain hideaway by terrorists determined to steal Jackson's research to create a chemical weapon of mammoth proportions. When the terrorists accidentally start a wildfire, smokejumper Lauren Michaels and her team report to the mountain to battle the blaze and find themselves in the middle of Jackson's nightmare. Though Jackson manages to escape his captors, he needs Lauren and her team to help him get off the mountain, save his daughter and prevent a national crisis.
PHANTOM IN THE NIGHT by Dianna Love and #1 NYT best seller Sherrilyn Kenyon is a new Bureau of American Defense (BAD) Agency story. Terri Mitchell signed on with the BAD Agency to find a New Orleans link to a terrorist group and to hunt for a murderer. She’s running short on time when bizarre rumors begin to surface of a ghost terrorizing the drug ring she’s investigating. Nathan Drake spent his life protecting his family, the only thing that mattered to him until the most feared drug lord in the southeast took all he held dear. Now, Nathan is a man after blood with nothing to lose…until he meets Terri. Terri and Nathan seek similar goals by different means and from opposite sides of the law. With every reason not to trust each other, they must join forces or die. And if they die, a deadly attack will be unleashed on thousands of innocent people.
JULY 2008
The second installment of SEDUCTION SUMMER is brought to you by uber-sexy author Sheri Whitefeather with KILLER PASSION.
This month Beth Cornelison releases DUTY TO PROTECT Silhouette Romantic Suspense. For years, counselor Ginny West has been helping abused women build a better life for themselves. Then a client's husband turns his violence against Ginny, and she finds herself not only trying to protect the woman and her children but also fighting for her own life. Responding to a call at the local women's center, firefighter Riley Sinclair saves Ginny from a burning office and resuscitates her when she stops breathing. Having already faced one tragic loss in his life, Riley vows the dangerous man threatening Ginny won't get a second chance to hurt her. Although Ginny resists Riley's guard duty, she can't deny the fiery attraction she shares with her fireman protector. But Riley has secrets he can't share with Ginny, and she's afraid to give Riley her love until she knows what he is hiding. While Ginny learns to trust Riley and her heart, her client's scorned husband is drawing closer... and his plans for vengeance are growing more deadly!
AUGUST 2008
The second installment in Kathleen Creighton's series, THE TAKEN, is DAREDEVIL’S RUN, set on a wild whitewater river and featuring plenty of hair-raising adventure and suspense, and romance, of course. Alex Penny and Matthew Callahan were once partners and lovers, but an unspeakable tragedy tore them apart. Now they have a chance to find each other again, if they can only get past the fear, distrust and betrayal—not to mention a killer bent on keeping them apart forever. Oh yeah--and those devil rapids!
SEPTEMBER 2008
WHO’S CHEATIN’ WHO? by Maggie Price -- Book #7 of Harlequin’s Thoroughbred Legacy continuity series, set against the glamour, excitement and thrilling intrigue of the international horse racing industry.
Champion jockey Melanie Preston hates secrets, so the last man she’d trust is Marcus Vasquez, the world-renowned Thoroughbred trainer who refuses to reveal anything about his personal life. But when the brewing scandal surrounding her family’s livelihood forces Melanie to go to work for Marcus, she learns that love, like racing, is all about taking a gamble.
OCTOBER 2008
In book two of Gail Barrett's THE CRUSADERS: Chasing legends, capturing hearts miniseries, TO PROTECT A PRINCESS, Dara Adams, sole survivor of the assassination of the Roma royals, embarks on a daring journey to recover the sacred dagger, the second of three treasures needed to break an ancient curse. But she doesn't bargain on Logan Burke, her enigmatic guide through the Peruvian Andes, awakening longings she never dared feel. Or on discovering a shocking secret that could forever change her life.
ALPHA SQUAD, an exciting new trilogy from Kylie Brant begins in October 2008. “When All Else Fails"... The men and women of this California S.W.A.T. team are highly trained warriors. Defusing high-risk incidents. Placing themselves at risk for strangers. And finding love amidst the danger...
TERMS OF SURRENDER October 2008 from Kylie Brant. Dace Recker loved, and lost, Jolie Conrad eighteen months ago, after the death of their son. Now she’s back, partnered with him on the Crisis Negotiation Team. And the deadly bank robbery they’re working is only slightly more risky than unraveling their complicated past.
Jolie came back to Metro City to care for her dying mother, not to rekindle her painful relationship with Dace. But when one of the bank robbers begins a deadly game of revenge, Jolie and Dace are in his sights. And it’s only a matter of time before danger—and passion—find them again.
Linda Conrad’s new series, THE SAFEKEEPERS, continues in October with SAFE BY HIS SIDE. The Ryan/Delgado family is one step closer to having their family’s curse lifted! But the Mexican black witch who may be their only salvation is nearing death. Their time grows short.
In the meantime, a child movie star is being stalked! And charmer Ethan Ryan is just the man to guard her life. He has no problem using his family’s witchcraft heritage when it suits his purpose, and he could care less about a curse that makes it impossible for him to have children. He’s single and likes it that way…until he has to work with a sweet child and the Plain Jane woman who is her guardian. Blythe Cooper may be plain, but she is has a few secrets of her own that make it difficult for Ethan to keep her Safe By His Side.
Debra Cowan jumps to Silhouette Nocturne this month for an anthology entitled AFTERSHOCK with authors Sharon Sala and Janis Reams Hudson. The stories stem from some extreme physical trauma or near-death episode experienced by the heroines of each novella. The aftershock of their trauma leaves them with unexpected and unwelcome gifts of paranormal powers. Deb’s contribution is "SEEING RED". After a near-death experience, firefighter Cass Hollister begins having bizarre startling episodes where she sees full-blown images of fires that haven't happened yet. But when she shares her insider information with Ben Wyrick, the fire investigator she walked away from, she must convince him that her source isn't his primary suspect: her arsonist brother.
SAFE BY HIS SIDE comes at you from Linda Conrad. This is Book 2 in her Safekeeper trilogy.
NOVEMBER 2008
This month brings you book 3 in THE COLTONS multi-author SRS continuity from Linda Conrad
DECEMBER 2008
COMING IN 2008
And launching in 2008 -- MAN HUNTER -- the first book in TRUE NORTH, an exciting new Silhouette Romantic Suspense miniseries from Loreth Anne White set north of 60. The first book kicks off in the northern Yukon with Mountie Gabriel Caruso being forced to turn to local tracker Silver Karvonen for help in hunting down the survivalist killer hunting them. But mantracker Silver has a dark secret of her own, one that could pit her against the cop himself as they are lured into wild and isolated terrain on the trail of a devilishly cunning hunter. Watch this space for more details.
FEBRUARY 2009
TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT, book 2 of Kylie Brant's ALPHA SQUAD trilogy is released.
After three years on the run, Lindsay Bradford can tell that it’s almost time to move on again. A new state. A new identity. And staying ahead of the killer on her trail. But that was before she met tactical S.W.A.T. officer Jack Langley.
The hostage situation he rescues her from brings her national media attention and the killer to her door. Now Lindsay must decide whether to run again or stay and fight the assassin. And take a chance at a future she'd never dared hope for...
MARCH 2009
Book 3 in the DATES WITH DESTINY mini-series from Maggie Price will be released this month, THE REDEMPTION OF RAFE DIAZ. The search for a vicious killer leads an exonerated ex-con PI to the free-spirited party girl who helped put him in prison...but when they become targets, the only way he can save them both is to trust the woman who destroyed years of his life.
Also coming from Loreth Anne White, BREAKING FREE, part of the Thoroughbred Legacy, a 12-book Harlequin continuity set against the glamour, excitement and thrilling intrigue of the international horseracing industry. Watch for the first Thoroughbred Legacy book in June 2008.
AUGUST 2009
August 2009 brings the action packed conclusion to Kylie Brant's ALPHA SQUAD series, TERMS OF ATTRACTION. S.W.A.T. sniper "Cold Shot" Ava Carter accepts Cael McCabe's offer for a short term job. Getting the VIP out of the States and delivering him back to his South American country should have been an easy week's work. But that was before the man's own army turned on him. Cael is determined to rescue the man from the South American jungle prison, but there are no terms in her contract dictating that Ava must help. However, there's more than a contract binding her to Cael. There's a combustible attraction that has her following him into danger. . .and headlong in love.
SEPTEMBER 2009
Don't miss THE MINDHUNTERS, Kylie Brant's single title dark romantic thriller trilogy coming from Berkley. WAKING NIGHTMARE pairs forensic profiler Abbie Phillips and Savannah detective Ryne Robel tracking down a sadistic serial rapist.
OCTOBER 2009
Kylie Brant is back with the second installment in her single title Berkley series, WAKING EVIL.NOVEMBER 2009
WAKING THE DEAD, Kylie Brant's third Mindhunter's book will be released from Berkley.COMING IN 2009
Debra Cowan’s mini-series, The Hot Zone, continues in 2009 with books 4 and 5. First up from Silhouette Romantic Suspense is DARK EMBERS. Presley, Oklahoma, doctor Meredith Boren believes her fire investigator ex-fiancé died in a blaze ... until he reappears eighteen months later. Gage Parrish claims that faking his death was the only way to keep Meredith safe after he uncovered an arson ring involving government employees. But now continuing to let her believe he's dead could cost her life. FIRE PROOF, book 5 in the series, will also be a 2009 release. An experienced female firefighter, Jen Lawson goes undercover at a Presley fire house to determine if the murder of Walker McClain's wife transformed the decorated firefighter/SWAT medic into a vigilante. Debra's Whirlwind, Texas mini-series for Harlequin Historicals returns in 2009 with book five. WHIRLWIND SECRETS is the first of the Baldwin brothers’ stories. Sharp-eyed Russ Baldwin sets out to expose the secrets of his fetching new business partner, Lydia Kent, and learns that the only thing more dangerous than her lies is the truth.
The third book in Linda Conrad's SAFEKEEPER trilogy will also be out in 2009. Tentative title: IN SAFE HANDS
COMING IN 2010
Debra Cowan’s The Hot Zone returns with FIRESTORM, the sixth book in the mini-series. Hard-nosed fire investigator Nate Houston is forced to team up with the gorgeous cop whose engagement he derailed. He may have saved Detective Robin Daly from making the mistake of her life, but now it's his mistake that could cost them theirs. WHIRLWIND REUNION, book 6 in the Whirlwind, Texas mini-series, will also be out from Harlequin Historicals in 2010. Infamous ladies' man Matt Baldwin wants nothing to do with the woman who rejected his marriage proposal and left him eight years ago to become a doctor. But when he's severely beaten, Annalise Fine is the only person who can save his life and help him find his attacker.
