Coming in 2010
AUGUST 2010
Linda Conrad’s COVERT AGENT’S VIRGIN AFFAIR is the second book in the Coltons of Montana six-author miniseries. In it, FBI agent, Jake Pierson, is undercover in Honey Creek, Montana, trying to gather information. It shouldn’t be too hard squeezing that information out of a woman if he pretends to fall in love. But then things get complicated, and his assignment becomes the most difficult of his life.
Mary Walsh is twenty-nine and just lost a hundred pounds. Her life is finally on the verge of a new beginning. She wants it all; a new job, a new place to live and a man who will love her. But it’s that last one that might end up costing her everything!
This month bestselling SRS author Nina Bruhns launches her new trilogy for Nocturne, called THE IMMORTAL SHEIKHS. In book one, LORD OF THE DESERT, British Lord Rhys Kilpatrick serves his dark master well. Mortals believe the demi-god Seth Aziz is merely a myth. But Rhys is one of the initiated few who know better. He is an immortal shapeshifter, trusted lieutenant to the five-thousand year old vampire high priest who rules the night desert from his palatial tomb deep beneath the shifting sands. Rhys’s job is to supply his dark lord with all his heart desires, including beautiful women for blood sacrifice… But when intrepid historian Gillian Haliday ventures too close to the tomb of the demi-god, seeking Rhys’s own grave, he is instantly obsessed with the bold, golden beauty. This woman he will keep for himself…
To Catch a Killer by Kimberly Van Meter. Ten years ago Kara Thistle fled her sleepy California town. She left behind bittersweet memories and a night that changed her life. Now deadly business brings the FBI special agent back home and face-to-face with her ex-lover—Lantern Cove police chief Matthew Beauchamp.
Forced to work with the special agent to track down a killer, Matt has to play nice with Kara, the last person he expected to see again. The woman he’s never forgotten. Despite everything, he still wants her…even when he discovers her secret. Now their daughter’s in danger, and Kara is stealing his heart all over again. This time they have everything to lose….
Watch out for the new installment in the miniseries NASCAR Family Secrets, CORNERED in What He Didn’t Say by Maggie Price. When his sponsor hires an investigative reporter to write a profile about his life, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Rafael O’Bryan knows he’ll have to stay on top of things to keep the deadly secrets he left behind in his native Brazil buried deep. But can he when feisty investigative reporter, Caitlin Dempsey, is determined to unearth every detail about the sexy driver’s mysterious past?
SEPTEMBER 2010
MESMERIZING STRANGER, by Jennifer Greene. Cate Campbell is the wild, adventurous sister, who makes a living as an ‘adventure chef’ anywhere around the world. On an Alaskan yacht, though, she finds more than she bargains for when a guest is murdered—from ingredients in her galley!—and Harm Connolly seems to think she doesn’t know what real risk is…until they come together.
OCTOBER 2010
THE BRIDE’S BODYGUARD by Beth Cornelison, the next installment in the Bancroft Brides miniseries. When armed gunmen open fire at Paige Bancroft’s wedding, critically wounding her groom when he wouldn’t turn over a mysterious “bead”, best man and former Navy SEAL Jake McCall hustles the bride to safety. But until Jake and Paige can determine what the gunmen were after, Jake must keep Paige safely hidden from the terrorists. While in hiding with Jake, Paige deals with not only her groom’s betrayal, but also a sizzling attraction to her brooding protector.
THE SECOND-CHANCE SHERIFF in the Covert Christmas anthology by Linda Conrad. Tara Jackson’s undercover operation has fallen apart and she needs the help of old lover and sheriff, Cam Farrell–fast! She’s being chased through a blizzard by a killer. But Cam is no longer the sheriff and he’d vowed never to see Tara again. Will he turn her away like he has everyone else? Or will the blizzard and the their love conspire to give both of them a Second Chance?
NOVEMBER 2010
Kylie Brant continues her bestselling MINDHUNTERS dark romantic thriller series with DEADLY INTENT. No one knows the patterns and nuances of communication like forensic linguist Macy Reid. She is also an expert on kidnapping, having experienced first-hand the stark terror of being abducted when she was a child. So, she is the perfect investigator to be called in when a Denver tycoon’s eleven-year-old daughter is abducted—for the second time.
The biggest stumbling block for Macy may be a member of her own team: Kellan Burke, the wise-cracking, rule-breaking investigator who relishes getting under Macy’s skin. Their styles couldn’t be more different; the attraction between them more explosive. And when it becomes apparent that Macy can’t solve this case without confronting the demons from her past, Kell is just the man to take her there—and back…
In book five of the Colton’s Montana series by Beth Cornelison, private investigator Peter Walsh has his hands full investigating the unanswered questions surrounding his father’s mysterious death. His life takes another unexpected turn when his son starts having trouble at school,and Peter falls hard for his son’s teacher. But teacher Lisa Navarre knows her painful history stands in the way of any future with Peter.
Nina Bruhns continues her sizzling contemporary paranormal series for Harlequin Nocturne, THE IMMORTAL SHEIKHS, this month with book two, SHADOW OF THE SHEIKH. Sheikh Shahin Aswadi—the harbinger of death, a ghostly figure who rides the wind in the form of a powerful black hawk. No mortal has dared approach his hidden oasis encampment for nearly a century. They are all terrified by the ruthless legend of al Shahin. All but intrepid anthropologist Gemma Haliday. Determined to find her missing sister, Gemma has foolishly disregarded the dire warnings of local villagers…and walks straight into a trap Shahin has laid for her. He takes the beautiful mortal captive, determined to use her, then gift her to his vampire lord, Seth-Aziz, as a blood sacrifice. But one taste of Gemma’s lips and he knows he must possess her for fully and for all time. And he wants her to burn for him as he burns for her, with a desire as hot and vast as his desert home.
DECEMBER 2010
IRRESISTABLE STRANGER by Jennifer Greene. Lily Campbell returns home to Pecan Valley, Georgia, against her sisters’ wishes, to dive into the family past. From the minute she arrives, a plague of fires start in town, all connected impossibly to her…and the only one who seems to believe in her innocence is Griff Branchard, a womanizing scoundrel if ever there was one. Or so he’d like people to believe…
COMING IN 2010, PUB DATE TBA
WHIRLWIND REUNION, book 6 in the 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, that woman, Dr. Annalise Fine, is the only person who can save his life and help him find his attackers.
