Finished for Review: Noella's Gift by Dorina Covey

Title: Noella's Gift
Author: Donica Covey
Publisher: Champagne Books
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Genre:  Contemporary/Christmas
Pages: Short
Heat Rating: Sweet

A disillusioned cop, and a bitter woman. Can a little girl take the bah-humbug out of their holiday?




Author Website: Donica Covey

A very sweet Christmas Story.  Review to be sent to You Gotta Read Reviews this week.

Finished for Review: Confederate Rose by Susan Macatee

Title:  Confederate Rose

Author: Susan Macatee
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
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Genre: Historical Romance
Pages: 240 pages
Format: eBook, Paperback
TWRP Heat Rating: Spicy

Disguised as a man to serve with her husband as a soldier in the Confederate Army, Irish immigrant Katie Rose O'Reilly vows to remain in the ranks and seek revenge on Yankees after her husband is killed at Sharpsburg. When she falls and almost drowns in a swollen stream, Southerner Alexander Hart, a Yankee spy, saves Katie from drowning, then nurses her through a resulting fever, keeping his identity secret from the feisty and beautiful Rebel soldier even as he finds himself falling in love with her. Can Katie reconcile her loyalties with her love?


Author Website:  Susan Macatee

I do like Civil War romances!
Review to be sent to You Gotta Read Reviews this week.

Finished for Review: Winter Wheat by Barbara Wohlschlegel

Title:  Winter Wheat
Author:  Barbara Wohlschlegel

Story Length: Rosebud - 210 pages
Genre: Sweet/Inspirational
Buy Link  e-Book $4.50

Blurb:
The youngest of four daughters, April Sennett wasn’t the son her farmer parents wanted and needed. Her father’s crippling accident compels her to return home and shoulder the arduous farm work under his vitriolic supervision. Her mother’s belated affection helps sustain her, but neighboring farmer Dan Clayton must often be called to April’s aid. She doesn’t know why he’s so willing to help her irreligious family—April’s father has spent years ridiculing the “Holy Claytons” for their deep-seated Christianity.

Dan’s gentle ways capture April’s heart, but it’s only after she falls in love with him that she discovers his engagement to a vivacious Christian girl. Reading the Bible only confirms April’s unworthiness for Dan. Can God take an impossible situation and give April her heart’s desire, or is she destined to a lonely life of working herself to exhaustion to save her father’s farm?


This was absolutely Lovely!  Review to be posted by the end of the week at YGR Reviews.

Finished for Review: Showdown at Southfork by Celia Yeary

Title:  Showdown at Southfork; Wayback, Texas Series
Author: Celia Yeary
Catagory: Contemporary Cowboy
Word Count:  98 pages
Heat Level: Sensual
Published by:  The Wild Rose Press

Blurb: Marla Ellington inherits an abandoned town on ranchland near Wayback, Texas. When she arrives to claim her property, and finds Cody Matheson sitting on the porch of the dilapidated honky-tonk, her temper flares hotter than her pistol. Anger blazing, she settles in for a showdown.

Cody’s only goal for the week is to win the bull-riding event at the Saturday night rodeo. But when Marla receives an anonymous threat that forces her to leave town, Cody finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a mystery. ’Course, catching a criminal and lasting eight seconds on a bull are easy compared to winning the love of the feisty, strawberry-blonde beauty who wants nothing to do with him. Now it's his turn for a showdown.

Review sent to be posted at You Gotta Read Reviews.

Reading to Review: By The Book by JoAnn Carter

Reviewing for Between the Lines Reviews for WRDF
[Review should be posted this week]

Title:  By the Book

Author: JoAnn Carter

Publisher: White Rose Publishing

Genre:  Inspirational Rosette

Page Count: 70

Release Date: 6-26-2009

Price: 2.00

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Blurb: Perky 24 year old police dispatcher, Sarah Murphy, is held captive by images of her past. She doesn't trust men and is determined to hold onto her heart at all costs. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Dylan Eldredge of the Hampton Police Department believes she’s the woman God has intended for him and is equally determined to have her for his wife. Will he be able to prove he’s the man for her?

JoAnn Carter's Website

Reading to Review: Trapped by Connie Mann

Reading to Review for Between the Lines Reviews for WRDF

Title: Trapped
Author: Connie Mann
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
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320 Pages
Heat level: Sensual
Print ISBN: 1-60154-455-3


BLURB: It’s every woman’s worst nightmare: Had her daughter witnessed a murder?

 Beneath the homey, small-town facade of Riverlake, Florida, an unnamed evil lurks. When a guest at the local Bed and Breakfast turns up dead, tough single mom Sam Collins is convinced her young daughter knows more than she's saying. Sam vows to do whatever it takes to protect Lindsey from harm. She’ll sell the family-run marina she’s devoted her life to saving. She’ll even join forces with Danny Hastings--the one man she never expected to see again--the one who can destroy everything she holds dear.

 But can they stay alive long enough to protect the daughter he didn’t know he had?

Author Website:  Connie Mann

Finished for Review: The Show Must Go On by Kim Sheard

Title:  The Show Must Go On
By: Kim Sheard | Other books by Kim Sheard
Categories: Contemporary Mainstream ROMANCE
Word Count: 41,588
Heat Level: SWEET (the cover may be misleading!)

Published By: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.

Allyson Parker, the stereotypical shy librarian, finds an outlet for her wilder side by performing in community theater. There she can become someone else, someone infinitely more interesting and confident. Partnered in her first romantic lead with newcomer Matt Dauer, she begins to hope that life can imitate art. But can she overcome her bashfulness and self-doubts, cultivated by years of frequent relocations, in order to keep his interest?

Matt moved to Washington, D.C. from Chicago to escape a cheating, diva ex-girlfriend, but he's now also far from his parents and two brothers. His greatest desire is to create a new family as close-knit as the one he left behind. He must return to that past, though, when his ex is involved in a serious car accident and he is called on to help. Will his benevolent act mean the end of his blossoming relationship with Allyson?


Review will go to You Gotta Read Reviews this week!

Next Book for Review: Mirror Mirror by Karen Wiesner

Book 3 of the Wounded Warriors Series
by Karen Wiesner
Newly Revised and Reissued!
Mainstream Romantic Suspense
ISBN: 978-1-60174-083-0 (electronic)
Electronic reissue coming January 15, 2010 from Uncial Press
ISBN: 978-0-578-03398-3 (trade paperback)


Trade paperback reissue coming soon from http://stores.lulu.com/karenwiesner

Twenty-five years ago, Gwen Nicholson-Nelson was in a car accident that almost claimed her life and left behind a strange gift. She can see the future...and death...before it comes to pass. She had a vision of her husband's death ten years before it happened in, for Gwen, chilling deja vu. During this time, she's also had a disturbing connection with another like her, a psychic who has the power to not only see into others but to manipulate and destroy.

For twenty-five years, as seemingly unrelated events convince Gwen she has no power of her own beyond bizarre sight, she's wondered why she was given the ability to see pain and death yet never to alleviate them. But when her nemesis targets Dylan Mitchell, the man she loves, and his daughter, all the pieces of the puzzle that have tormented her fall into place. Gwen must discover her own power, believe in herself and her destiny, and act--before her vision of Dylan's death comes to pass.

Karen Wiesner Website 

Book being reviewed for  You Gotta Read Reviews.

My Next Read for Review - Killer Dolls by Angelica Hart and Zi

Title: Killer Dolls
Author: Angelica Hart and Zi
Genre: Romantic Suspense
eBook
Publisher: Champagne Books
Published: September 2009
ISBN: 978-1-926681-01-6
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Author's Website

While bio-terrorists use her handcrafted dolls to attack the innocent, Letti Noel falls for FBI agent Taut Johnson. Deceit is a growing barrier to their love, but it's the stalking terrorists that threaten their lives.

Current Review Book - I Can See You by Karen Rose

Title: I Can See You  (Audio CD)
Author: Karen Rose
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Hardcover: 496 pages
Available Formats: Hardcover, Paperback Large Print, Kindle, Audio CD
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; First Edition first Printing edition (August 5, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0446538345
ISBN-13: 978-0446538343
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Author’s Website

Blurb: Eve Wilson was the victim of the villain in Don’t Tell, an assault which resulted in disfiguring injury. After the incident, Eve retreated into the virtual realm, seeking refuge from the public eye. Now, with the help of a surgeon, her face is mostly restored and she has returned to the real world. Now a graduate student, her goal is to research the use of the virtual world as therapy to improve self-esteem. But when a string of suspicious suicides connected to her Internet activities leads homicide detective Noah Webster to her door, Eve is forced back into an intoxicating world of Web sites, alternate identities, and secret passions. A world where her experience and expertise are key … and where she becomes a player in a deadly game, trapped in the fight of her life.

Current Review Book - ALL OR NOTHING by Ashley Ludwig

Title: All or Nothing
Author: Ashley Ludwig
Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: White Rose Publishing
Page Count:  308
Available Formats: eBook amd Print
ISBN 1-60154-561-4
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Author Website

BLURB:
A widow finds love.
A soldier seeks redemption.
A murderous bandit threatens to destroy them both.

RuthAnne Newcomb, a young widow starting over, nearly dies on the perilous winding road to Tucson, Arizona in 1876. The accident is a cover-up for a heinous crime at the hand of the murderous bandit El Tejano. Robbed and left for dead, all that remains for RuthAnne is her faith and her God-given talents. She needs both to endure the handsome, vengeful cavalry captain who saves her life.

Captain Bowen Shepherd offers aid in exchange for information leading to the criminal's capture. El Tejano is bound to strike again, likely against the only living witness to his crimes.

Bowen and RuthAnne must work together and risk everything to unmask the bandit. Will their newfound love, or their lives, be the cost of bringing a murderer to justice?

Current Review Book - A CIRCLE OF SOULS by Preetham Grandhi

Title: A Circle of Souls
Author: Preetham Grandhi
Genre: A Psychological Thriller
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Cedar Fort; 1 edition (June 15, 2009)
ISBN-10: 1599552353
ISBN-13: 978-1599552354
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Author's Website

Blurb: The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town’s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.

Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury’s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings’s devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya’s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.

The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya’s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.

In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.