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1. Lovers and Beloveds by MeiLin Miranda

   About Lovers and Beloveds by MeiLin Miranda:

   A trapped immortal planning escape…

   A prince who is the key…

   And a suppressed, seductive history, captured in a magic book…

   Just turned 18, Prince Temmin Antremont has finally joined his father’s court, only to walk straight into a power struggle between the secular and the sacred. The twin gods of love and sex call Temmin to serve in the Lovers’ Temple for two years, a call made even more tempting by the seductive twins who embody the gods.

   Prophecy suggests that Temmin’s entrance into the Temple spells the kingdom’s end, and the King will stop at nothing to prevent it. But the king’s own advisor, a strange immortal called Teacher, comes to Temmin’s aid. Why? And does the kingdom’s fate really hinge on one young man’s decision?

   Lovers and Beloveds is the first book in the acclaimed Victorianesque fantasy series An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom, which continues with Son in Sorrow.

   Raves and a 4-star average at Goodreads!

   “Everything I adore in high fantasy–lush worldbuilding, political intrigue, and compelling characters–combined with something I rarely find in high fantasy–intelligent, well-written, relevant sex. MeiLin Miranda’s a damn fine writer and definitely one I’ll be keeping my eye on in the future!” — M.K. Hobson, author of The Native Star

   “If George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series captures the gritty realism of medieval history,Lovers and Beloveds reveals the intimate and personal dynamics of power in aristocracies. It weaves together a rich multi-layered story that explores how sex and power shape history and individual destiny–sharing a perspective that’s beyond the ‘men, swords, and thrones’ (capital H) history that’s often seen in fantasy.” — book blogger Frida Fantastic

   “[C]aptivating – almost like an anthropological study of sex, identity, gender, relationships, power, fetish, etc. Unlike your normal smut novel or porn piece, the sex is heart-breakingly realistic, full of warts and rough edges. … Overall Rating: 4.5 stars. Thought-provoking, well-written, emotionally powerful.” — Maria T. Violante, Write, Read, Review blog

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   Author Bio:
   MeiLin Miranda writes fantasy and science fiction set in Victorian worlds. Her love of all things 19th century (except for the pesky parts like cholera, child labor, slavery and no rights for women) has consumed her since childhood, when she fell in a stack of Louisa May Alcott and never got up.

   MeiLin wrote nonfiction for thirty years, in radio, television, print and the web. She always wanted to write fiction, but figured she had time. She discovered she didn’t when a series of unfortunate events resulted in a cardiac arrest complete with a near-death experience. She has since decided she came back from the dead to write books.

   MeiLin lives in a 130-year-old house in Portland, Oregon with a husband, two teens, two black cats, a floppy dog and far, far too much yarn.

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2. Banished Love by Ramona Flightner

   About Banished Love by Ramona Flightner:

   Free-Spirited…

   Clarissa Sullivan dreams for more from life than sipping tepid tea in stifling parlors in Victorian Boston. She defies her family’s wishes, continuing to teach poor immigrant children in Boston’s West End, finding a much-needed purpose to her life.

   Radical…

   As a suffragette, Clarissa is considered a firebrand radical no man would desire. For why should women want the vote when men have sheltered women from the distasteful aspects of politics and law?

   Determined…

   When love blossoms between Clarissa and Gabriel McLeod, a struggling cabinetmaker, her family objects. Clarissa’s love and determination will be tested as she faces class prejudices, manipulative family members and social convention in order to live the life she desires with the man she loves.

   Will she yield to expectations, or follow her heart on a journey of self-discovery as she learns what she cannot live without?

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   Author Bio:
   Ramona Flightner is an avid reader, writer, and traveler. By day, she practices the healing arts as a nurse practitioner. Every other moment, she’s researching, reading and writing her next novel. BANISHED LOVE and RECLAIMED LOVE are the first two novels in her forthcoming Banished Saga.

   Ramona is from Missoula, Montana. She currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. Her favorite pastimes are fly fishing the cool, clear streams of a Montana river, hiking in the mountains, and spending time with family and friends.

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3. White Magic Woman

   About White Magic Woman:

   Newly married, Todd Montgomery was happy with his life. He has a job he loves and a wife he adores, life couldn’t be better. His work as a research scientist took him all over the world, but now stationed on the tiny island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean, he becomes the night-time plaything of one of the most powerful sorceress on the island.

   Simonia was passionately in love with her husband, Todd, and lives for the moments they could spend together, whenever he got a break from his demanding job. But, when on one of his trips home, he could not have sex with his beautiful wife; Simonia was beside herself. She thought he was cheating on her. Not knowing how to handle such deception, Simonia became very despondent and cold to her husband.

   But when Todd came home suddenly and told her he was the object of a sorceress’ obsession and it had gotten so bad, he had to leave his job and return home to seek help. She believes him, especially since the witch had followed him all the way to New South Wales. Todd was helpless to fight the witch, so it was left to Simonia to save her man, and her marriage. Together these two lovers set out on an adventure of a life time, to capture and destroy a powerful witch who is hell bent on destroying their marriage. Will they succeed against the power of evil?…

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   Author Bio:
   Ju Ephraime began writing professionally at age 19; at that time, she wrote short stories for the local radio station in her home town. She gave up writing to pursue her education and has since earned several degrees, including two Masters and a Doctorate in Higher Education Administration from Northeastern University in Boston. During the course of her schooling, she wrote and published a working curriculum for a career school, a business manual and its answer key, as well as other literary work. In 2010 she revisited her first love, writing for fun and enjoyment. She writes high heat, steamy, romance novels. The first was, State of Ecstasy in the LaCasse series, which was soon followed by, Temptation to Sin, Loving Therèse, #2 in the LaCasse series. Ju has gone on to write several more books, including, The Odor of Violet, on tour this month, Complete Surrender, #3 in the LaCasse series; as well as, a Christmas Novella, Footsteps in the Sand and her award winning paranormal, White Magic Woman, Quarterfinalist in Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest, 2013, out of over 10,000 entrants.

   Ju lives in Connecticut, where she is very active in her community. She is the administrator of a business school and the president of a non-profit organization that dresses individuals for job interviews.

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4. Guardians: The Girl

   About Guardians: The Girl:

   ******OVER 400 FIVE STAR REVIEWS!*******
   Sitting there in the car, a part of me bitterly resented what she was doing to me. I knew it wasn’t her fault. But does she have to be so… alluring? I need to focus on something else besides the spot between her earlobe and neck. It looked so soft. Her lips were slightly parted as she looked out the window. I wanted to part them further with mine. I put both my hands on the steering wheel. I could not allow myself to let go until she was out of the car. Suddenly she leaned in and kissed me. It was far better than I could even begin to explain to you. I’ve fought and died a slow and painful death on earth. And nothing, NOTHING can compare to how hard it was for me to pull away from her lips. I don’t think any angel could to do it twice in a lifetime…

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   Author Bio:
   Lola StVil is a Haitian born writer and actress. She lives in Hollywood and welcomes online interaction with readers.

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5. The Gingerbread Boy

   About The Gingerbread Boy:

   After an impromptu serenade in an abandoned ballroom, Michigan State University Veterinary medicine student, Catherine Sealy, wonders who the enigmatic young man known only to her as “Daniel,” really is. She later discovers he is Daniel LaMont, the beloved lead singer of an up and coming -East Lansing rock band. She also learns that her vixen of a roommate, Beth Shaker, has set her eye on him. And Beth Shaker always gets what Beth Shaker wants.

   Yet, an unlikely relationship between Catherine and Daniel flourishes, and their love is culminated in their first kiss while sitting atop a great fallen willow over Looking Glass River…the same river in which Daniel nearly drowns shortly thereafter. The freakish incident forces Daniel to search out the ghastly truth: he is sick. Very sick. And the illness cannot be cured.

   How can he tell people that depend on him…and especially Catherine? Should he tell her at all? Or should he run, become the “gingerbread boy” that his mother lovingly calls him? The choices Daniel must make could not only cause him to lose his career and his one true love, but his identity itself.

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   Author Bio:
   I’ll always be a country girl at heart. Growing up on a small farm in Wayland, Michigan was a surreal experience; our excitement consisted of such things as riding a bow-legged cow named Raisin, sitting in the crow’s nest of a magic apple tree and reading comic books, or building leaf forts and Koolaid-Machines.

   There were also less interesting adventures. Wading in Rabbit River was a perfect way to get leeches stuck between your toes, and pouring salt on them was about the only way to get the nasties off your skin without damage. Then there was crawling through the muck fields, picking potato bugs off of dad’s crop (chemicals were too toxic) and plopping the bugs in cans of gasoline. Ick…Yet I still found time to write goofy plays that my sisters and neighbors would act out beneath the boughs of the huge maple trees rimming the yard of our humble farm house. That’s when the writing bug really started, and continues to this day. Our magic apple tree (sniff) is long gone, as well as the potato bugs (yay)– but stories fill my head nonetheless.

   My hope is that the oddities of my life have lead to an originality in my stories that people will connect with and love

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6. Along Came a Tiger (Tiger Shifters #2) by Kat Simons

   About Along Came a Tiger (Tiger Shifters #2) by Kat Simons:

   Never kill a human.

   Daniel Borowski, Tracker and enforcer of tiger shifter law, faces an impossible choice when the woman he loves is set on breaking one of their people’s most fundamental rules—don’t kill humans. Daniel’s own sense of justice cries out for the life of the man who murdered one of their own, but killing him—especially in tiger form—is an automatic death sentence. Daniel loves Sarah too much to allow her to throw her life away for revenge. But preventing her from killing could cost him any chance at a future with her.

   Her soul demands blood.

   Sarah Chu never imagined losing her best friend so young and in such a gruesome way. Until then, she was focused on her career as a genetics researcher and trying to get pregnant during the Mate Run so she could be with the man she loves. After her friend’s murder, Sarah can think of little beyond ripping the man responsible to pieces. So when Daniel stops her from taking her revenge, anger and frustration make her lash out at him even as the chemistry between them roars through her. If she kills the human, she’ll sacrifice the life she imagined with Daniel. If she lets the human go, she’s not sure she’ll be able to live with herself.

   Justice will come at a price.

   To protect Sarah, Daniel will do whatever it takes, including finding another way to get justice. Even that might not be enough for her, though. But when the murderer comes after them, intend on torture and death, Daniel and Sarah will have to choose…destroy the killer or protect their own future. Because they can’t have both.

   Books in the TIGER SHIFTERS series

   #1 Once Upon a Tiger

   #2 Along Came a Tiger

   #3 Here There Be Tigers (COMING FALL 2014)

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   Kat Simons earned her BA in Zoology studying dolphins in Hawaii and her Ph.D. in animal behavior studying deer in Ireland. She takes that background and turns nature on its ear in her paranormal romances. Her Tiger Shifter series follows the struggles of the tiger shapeshifters to survive in the face of extinction and how they handle love, lust and survival. When not writing, Kat loves to read, bake, travel, play with her sons, and go to sporting events with her husband and sons. She also plays entirely too much Sudoku. Currently, Kat lives in New York with her family, her funny little dog, and a library’s worth of books.

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7. A Dead Red Heart

   About A Dead Red Heart:

   #2 in the Dead Red Mystery Series:
   When a homeless Vet litters her beloved red Cadillac with poetry scrawled on paper snowflakes, Lalla decides to confront him. But that doesn’t mean she wants the man to drop dead at her feet—with a pair of blue handled scissors sticking out of his chest.
   With nothing but the man’s last words for the police to go on, Lalla decides that someone needs to be on the side of this misunderstood vet, and that person will be the exasperating, pushy, tenacious, Ms. Lalla Bains. But digging into the man’s past will only unravel a more potent question: What would you do if the love of your life lost their chance for a heart transplant because the donor organ went to a convicted felon?

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   I sort of fell into the job of running a crop-dusting business when my dad decided he’d rather go on a cruise than take another season of lazy pilots, missing flaggers, testy farmers and horrific hours. After two years at the helm, I handed him back the keys and fled to a city without any of the above. And no, I was never a crop-duster.
   I write about a tall, blond and beautiful ex-model turned crop-duster who, to quote Lalla Bains, says: “I’ve been married so many times they oughta revoke my license.” I wanted to give readers a peek at the not so-perfect -life of a beautiful blond. Lalla Bains is no Danielle Steele character, she’s not afraid of chipping her manicure. Scratch that, the girl doesn’t have time for a manicure what with herding a bunch of recalcitrant pilots and juggling work orders just to keep her father’s flagging business alive.

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