Coming in 2009
AUGUST 2009
Award-winning SRS author Nina Bruhns has captured both critical and popular success with her bestselling novels from Silhouette. Now comes her long-awaited breakout into the larger arena with an exciting romantic suspense/adventure series from Berkley Sensation. This month sees the release of book 1 of the trilogy: SHOOT TO THRILL. This page-turner follows a sexy black-ops hero and a kidnapped ER nurse as they are swept from the glitter of New York to the desolate sands of the Sahara, where the unlikely couple must fight for their lives while finding the courage to trust again—and something even scarier: to open their hearts to 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.
With a serial rapist loose on the streets on Savannah, hotshot detective Ryne Robel needs all the help he can get for his task force. And he needs it now, before another woman falls victim. But Abbie Phillips isn’t what he bargained for. Sent from an exclusive group of the best criminologists in the country, she’s smart, fierce…and distracting. She may be a brilliant forensic profiler, but Ryne needs answers, not pyschobabble and head games.
However, Abbie convinces him that head games are exactly what this elusive suspect is all about. The seemingly random acts of torture are actually calculated to match each victim’s darkest fears. And the stakes are rising. While they study the devious psychopath, he’s watching them–the next objects of his horrifying obsession.
Watch for BANKING ON HOPE by Maggie Price, Book #12 of Harlequin’s 2009 NASCAR continuity series: Money, women and fame aren’t everything they’re cracked up to be. Former NASCAR driver Brent Sanford should know. He had it all and lost it when he was accused of sabotaging a rival’s race car. In the four years since then, he’s focused all his attention on building his air charter business, but his focus on business takes a big detour when a sexy psychologist walks into his life. After learning that her fiancé bilked funds from lonely Texas widows, Dr. Hope Hunt wants nothing more to do with slime-weasel cheaters. She’s heard the rumors about Brent Sanford and believes them … until she meets the pilot with a charmer’s grin. Suddenly, not only are those beliefs challenged, but also Hope’s determination to stay far away from the same type of man who broke her heart.
In HEALING LUKE by Beth Cornelison, (Sourcebooks), ladies’ man Luke Morgan has the world at his feet until a freak explosion leaves him burned and bitter. Luke’s family offers gutsy occupational therapist Abby Stanford a job facilitating Luke’s physical therapy, but Luke wants no part of his family’s schemes or Abby’s help. When sparks fly between Luke and Abby, Luke must face his deepest fears in order to claim the woman who brought his family together and taught him the real meaning of love.
OCTOBER 2009
The BANCROFT BRIDES series begins with Book #1, THE CHRISTMAS STRANGER by Beth Cornelison. Widow Holly Bancroft Cole wants answers about her husband’s murder, but the police can tell her little except that it appears he was mugged by a vagrant for his watch and shoes. Months after losing her husband, Holly is trying to move forward with her life. She hires kind and handsome Matt Rankin to help her finish the stalled renovations on her farmhouse in time for Christmas, but she soon learns Matt hides a tragic past behind his warm smile. Is Matt Holly’s second chance for love or will Matt’s dark secrets come back to haunt Holly?
Kylie Brant is back with the second installment in her single title Berkley series, WAKING EVIL. Buffalo Springs, Tennessee is a neighborly kind of place where folks leave their doors unlocked and crime is unheard of. But once every generation, a strange red mist settles over the town, and with it comes omens of death….
When the body of a young woman is found, forensic investigator Ramsey Clark is called in. She knows about the legend of the mist and about the curse that has the entire town afraid of the dark. But Ramsey believes in evidence, not superstition, despite what she’s told by the parapsychologist who has been dogging her every step. Then another murder rocks Buffalo Springs, and Ramsey begins to wonder if a killer is playing on everyone’s fears or if a prophecy is indeed being fulfilled—one victim at a time.
NOVEMBER 2009
Watch for “Stranded with the Bridesmaid” (Tentative Title) by Beth Cornelison, part of the Silhouette Romantic Suspense Christmas Blackout anthology (Title TBA).
WAKING THE DEAD, Kylie Brant’s third Mindhunter’s book will be released from Berkley. Former forensic anthropologist Caitlin Fleming knows bones. So the investigator is the first one called when seven sets of skeletal remains are found dumped in a makeshift graveyard in the Oregon wilderness. Each skeleton bears the same distinctive marks. And each is minus a skull.
Cait needs ourdoors guide Zach Sharper for one reason only—to help her find her way through the Willamette Forest as she pieces together clues. Despite the attraction that burns between them, nothing will be allowed to shake her focus. Until the killer closes in to terminate the investigation…and the ones on the verge of unmasking him…
DECEMBER 2009
IF LOOKS COULD CHILL is the intriguing title of book 2 of Nina Bruhns’s debut romantic suspense trilogy from Berkley Sensation. In this tightly woven thriller, reluctant spec-op agent Marc Lafayette must keep pretty Louisiana State Trooper Tara Reeves from uncovering a terrible secret conspiracy that could end their lives in seconds, and ultimately those of millions of innocents.
COMING IN 2009, PUB DATE TBA
The third book in Linda Conrad’s SAFEKEEPER trilogy will also be out in 2009. Tentative title: IN SAFE HANDS.
JANUARY 2010
Debra Cowan’s Silhouette Romantic Suspense mini-series, The Hot Zone, continues with the fourth book, THE PRIVATE BODYGUARD. 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.
FEBRUARY 2010
THE VIGILANTE LOVER is book #5 in the Silhouette Romantic Suspense mini-series, The Hot Zone by Debra Cowan. Firefighter Jen Lawson is sent undercover in a Presley fire house to find out if the death of Walker McClain’s wife turned him into a vigilante killing machine. To find proof, she’ll have to get close. To find the truth, she’ll have to get closer.
Also out in February is book five of Debra Cowan’s Whirlwind, Texas mini-series for Harlequin Historical. 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.
MARCH 2010
The Hot Zone series by Debra Cowan wraps up this month with THE FORBIDDEN BRIDE, the sixth book in the mini-series. Five years ago, Fire Marshal Nate Houston stopped Detective Robin Daly’s wedding cold. Now they’re forced to work together to find a serial arsonist-murderer and Robin must find the killer without killing Nate in the process.
APRIL 2010
In WHISPER OF DANGER, Jennifer Greene begins a new series about three sisters who lost their parents young, and who’ve struggled to find a sense of safety ever since. For each sister, a totally unexpected danger forces them to confront everything each has ever feared….including an attachment to the ‘wrong’ man. The series continues in May with TASTE OF DANGER and June with HEAT OF DANGER.
MAY 2010
TASTE OF DANGER by Jennifer Greene.
JUNE 2010
HEAT OF DANGER by Jennifer Greene.
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.
Bestselling SRS author Nina Bruhns continues with the exciting conclusion of her Berkley romantic thriller trilogy, A KISS TO KILL. Coming in April 2010.
Coming next winter from Harlequin:
BLAME IT ON THE BLIZZARD by Jennifer Greene, part of the “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” anthology.
