Fresh Pick | THE BEST REVENGE by Justine Davis

Redstone, Incorporated

February 2010
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Featuring: St. John; Jessa Hill
224 pages
ISBN: 0373276672
EAN: 9780373276677
Mass Market Paperback
$4.99

Romance Suspense
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The Best Revenge
by Justine Davis

He wanted his last dead end buried...

Something in St. John's intense blue eyes reminded Jessa Hill of her childhood friend. But Adam Alden was long dead….

The handsome stranger had vowed to help her defeat Adam's father in the mayoral race. Yet St. John's quest for revenge seemed too personal for a casual acquaintance. Could St. John and Adam be the same man…and would he disappear with Jessa's heart a second time?

Dameron St. John returned home with a new identity and a score to settle. But he wasn't prepared for the emotions that surfaced when he reunited with Jessa. Could he let her in once again…and together would they slay his demons once and for all?

Excerpt

"Coward."

St. John looked at himself in the mirror. The scar was less vivid than usual this morning, perhaps because there wasn't much tan to contrast with the thin, long ridge that slashed along the right side of his jaw. That happened when you hid inside most of the time, he told himself.

Coward was definitely the word, he added silently.

He'd been hiding more than usual lately. Not that there had been more problems at Redstone. The opposite in fact; things were going well on all fronts. The Hawk V jet was ready for delivery. The damage done by the snake in their midst at Research and Development was finally under control, losses minimized and security rebuilt. That had inspired their resident inventor to a new round of genius, including a couple of revolutionary concepts Read More...

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Fresh Pick | WOLF TRAP by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

Wolf Moon

March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Featuring: Parker Madison; Chloe Tyler
288 pages
ISBN: 0373618301
EAN: 9780373618309
Mass Market Paperback
$5.25

Romance Paranormal
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Wolf Trap
by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

Sultry Miami nights are about to get even hotter as Linda Thomas-Sundstrom continues her Wolf Moons series.

A hunt for a rogue werewolf stirs passion in the hearts of two rebels….

When a full moon awakens the beast within Dr. Parker Madison, he is hell-bent on finding explanations for his new Otherworld form and his insatiable lust. On the prowl one night, he discovers a woman in trouble—one who stirs his darker desires and may hold the answers to all that he has searched for.

After a sexy stranger rescues her from a brutal attack, Chloe Tyler can't stop dreaming about him. Especially when something deep inside his electric-blue eyes calls to her, and his touch fills her with the most intense desire she's ever known. But her nightmares are all too real. A rogue werewolf's bite has changed her life forever, and the one who turned her hunts her still. Unless her dream man comes to her rescue yet again, the danger remains….

Excerpt

"Just what am I supposed to be looking at?" Matt Wilson asked, massaging his temples with both hands as he walked. Fairview Hospital was one of his least favorite spots on earth, even if this was just a courtesy visit. Psychiatrics wasn't his job anymore, and he was certainly glad he'd veered from that into regular police detective work, in spite of the similarities.

Hell, the silence in this one corridor alone could drive a person nuts. Although the soundproofing was necessary for the sanity of the staff, who had to contend with these security wards on a daily basis, he was pretty sure that a complete lack of sound could eventually tweak their sanity, as well.

"New case," Jenna James, the supervising doctor of the hospital, said over her shoulder. A shoulder Matt knew intimately well and wished he could be alone with Read More...

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Fresh Pick | LEGEND OF THE WHITE WOLF by Terry Spear

Wolf #4

February 2010
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Featuring: Faith O'Mallery; Cameron MacPherson
384 pages
ISBN: 1402219059
EAN: 9781402219054
Mass Market Paperback
$6.99

Fantasy Urban, Romance Paranormal, Romance Suspense
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Legend Of The White Wolf
by Terry Spear

In a world of a snow and ice, their passions blaze...

In this fourth in Spear's series, Private Eye Cameron MacPherson and Faith O'Mallery are both on quests that lead them into the world of magical wolves…

Cameron arrives in the Canadian Arctic to search for his partners in his P.I. business who are late returning from a hunting trip. Faith is there to discover what her father had seen in the same area years earlier that had made him lose touch with reality—man-wolves, he called them.

The two tumble into an icy world of enemies bent on destroying the lupus garou kind. As they turn into lupus garou themselves, and bond with the pack that only they can rescue from destruction, Cameron and Faith find their soul mates in each other.

Excerpt

Once she reached her room, she slid the key card in. Green light. She twisted the handle and pushed. The door didn’t budge. She tried again. Same thing. She hated key cards. Why couldn’t they just use regular old brass keys?

She tried a third time and this time she twisted the handle harder and shoved the door more firmly. And was rewarded. Lights were on in the room and the place was already toasty warm as if the welcoming mat had been set out for her. Perfect. She walked into the room and glanced at the two queen-sized beds, the chartreuse covers pulled back from the pillow of one, a chocolate wrapped in gold foil sitting on the center of it. She smiled and pulled off her parka, peeled off her boots, and reached for the phone to call room service when she saw Read More...

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Fresh Pick | WEREWOLF SMACKDOWN by Mario Acevedo

Felix Gomez #5

March 2010
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Featuring: Felix Gomez
416 pages
ISBN: 0061567183
EAN: 9780061567186
Trade Size
$14.99

Fantasy Urban, Thriller Paranormal - Supernatural
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Werewolf Smackdown
by Mario Acevedo

Felix Gomez, Latino vampire detective extraordinaire, tackles a dangerous werewolf cabal in the fifth installment in Mario Acevedo's satirical supernatural series

A sure-to-be-bloody civil war is brewing between rival werewolf factions, and P.I . Felix Gomez will do anything he can to make sure it doesn't explode into a vicious battle that engulfs all creatures, living and dead.

Between that, the sudden reappearance of an ex-girlfriend, and a gang of other vampires trying to take off his head, this is one rumble even a fanged detective extraordinaire may not be able to handle.

Twists, turns and double-dealing turn this fast-paced vampire mystery into an excellent adventure.

Excerpt

Chapter One

“Felix, I want him dead.” Eric Bourbon held up a severed head. The head belonged to a Caucasian man in his early thirties. By the musky taint of the cadaver reek, the victim had been more than a man--he was a werewolf in human form. A were.

The eyelids were hooded, the cleanly shaven jaw slack, the pale lips opened slightly, the waxy complexion bleached from the loss of blood. The neck was a ragged stump that had been gnawed off the shoulders. A diamond earring glittered in the left ear lobe.

I said, “He looks pretty dead to me.”

“Not him.” Bourbon dropped the head into a large Tupperware bowl on his desk and wiped his hand with a kerchief. He shuffled photos from a manila file folder and pointed to the top photo. “Him. His Read More...

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Fresh Pick | PLEASURE OF A DARK PRINCE by Kresley Cole

Immortals After Dark #7

February 2010
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Featuring: Lucia; Garreth MacRieve
448 pages
ISBN: 1416580956
EAN: 9781416580959
Mass Market Paperback
$7.99

Romance Paranormal
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Pleasure Of A Dark Prince
by Kresley Cole

Can the beast seduce a beauty and make her love him...?

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole enraptures again with this seductive tale of a fierce werewolf prince who will stop at nothing to protect the lovely archer he covets from afar.

A DANGEROUS BEAUTY...
Lucia the Huntress: as mysterious as she is exquisite, she harbors secrets that threaten to destroy her -- and those she loves.
AN UNCONTROLLABLE NEED...
Garreth MacRieve, Prince of the Lykae: the brutal Highland warrior who burns to finally claim this maddeningly sensual creature as his own.
THAT LEAD TO A PLEASURE SO WICKED....
From the shadows, Garreth has long watched over Lucia. Now, the only way to keep the proud huntress safe from harm is to convince her to accept him as her guardian. To do this, Garreth will ruthlessly exploit Lucia's greatest weakness -- her wanton desire for him.

Excerpt

Prologue

Thrymheim Hold, the Northlands
Home of Skathi, goddess of the hunt
In ages long past . . .

Lucia the Maiden cracked open her eyes and found herself atop an altar, staring up at a furious goddess. Somehow her younger sister, Regin the Radiant, had found Skathi's temple and had brought Lucia here.

From one altar to the next, she thought deliriously as her fever raged. Pain roiled inside her broken body. Her fractured limbs . . . never had she imagined such agony.

"You deliver this into my sacred place," Skathi the Huntress of the Great North said to Regin, "and desecrate my altar? You court my wrath, young Valkyrie."

Regin—all of twelve years old, with Lucia's blood covering her glowing Read More...

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Fresh Pick | TAMING THE MOON by Sherrill Quinn

Moon #3

March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Featuring: Rory Sullivan; Olivia Felan
320 pages
ISBN: 0758231911
EAN: 9780758231918
Paperback
$14.00

Romance Paranormal
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Taming The Moon
by Sherrill Quinn

An instinct that won't be denied...

Olivia Felan has a wild side, all right. Even ignoring the fact that she turns furry and feral once a month, her natural style is take-no-prisoners, full-speed-ahead, come-what-may. But when it comes to her little girl, she doesn't take chances.

So when a big bad werewolf alpha steals her daughter, Olivia will do whatever it takes to get her baby back. And in this case, that means killing Rory Sullivan. The trouble is, killing him would mean wasting one sexy beast.

Sully is all man, all cop, and as of late, half wolf. When he meets Olivia, Sully's a little glad he stuck his nose into his friends' business and came out with animal senses - until he gets a whiff of the chaos following her around. Now he has to decide whether he can't take his eyes off Olivia because she's too beautiful - or because she's too dangerous.

Excerpt

Olivia Felan held her daughter close, breathing in the sweet scent of little girl and bubblegum, and tried not to cry. She wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of seeing her tears.

Through the open window she could hear the sounds of New York—horns blaring, tires screeching, sirens. Cool April wind blew into the room.

A shiver rolled down her spine, but it wasn’t the coldness of the air that made her shudder. Thanks to her werewolf metabolism, her internal thermostat ran hot. No, what made her shiver was the thought that she could lose her daughter, that he would take the little girl from her forever. Fear coiled deep in her belly. The sounds of the City That Never Sleeps faded as she let the feel of Zoe in her arms soothe her.

"All right. That’s enough." Brawny hands pulled Read More...

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Fresh Pick | BRIDE OF THE WOLF by Susan Krinard

March 2010
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Featuring: Heath Renier; Rachel Lyndon
384 pages
ISBN: 037377477X
EAN: 9780373774777
Mass Market Paperback
$7.99

Romance Historical, Romance Paranormal
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Bride Of The Wolf
by Susan Krinard

For better or for beast

Rachel Lyndon yearns to escape her scandalous past, but her dreams for a better life seem ruined after she buries her fiancé on the Texas plains.
Heath Renier has been evading the law by the skin of his teeth for years. Now he's found a new identity as Holden Renshaw, foreman of Dog Creek Ranch. But the arrival of his boss's mail-order bride, now a widow, upsets his fragile peace and threatens to expose his deadly secrets.
Rachel knows that the mysterious and savagely handsome Holden is the last man she should trust—especially once she's seen glimpses of his true nature. When he's suspected of killing his employer, she has a terrible choice to make. But the heat of his gaze ignites something seductive and irresistible within her. No matter how dangerous the road ahead, she's determined to give him the one thing he's never truly believed he deserves: her undying love.

Excerpt

Pecos County, Texas, 1881

Jedediah McCarrick was dead.

Heath rode carefully around the body sprawled at the bottom of the draw, gentling Apache with a quiet word. The horse was right to be scared. Jed hadn't been dead more than a few days, and the scent of decay was overwhelming.

An accident. That was the way it looked, anyhow. Half Jed's skull was bashed in, and his legs stuck out at strange angles. The rocks were sharp around here, and plentiful.

But Jed was a damn good rider. You had to be, in the Pecos, so far from civilization. The old man had been on his way home, just as his letter had said. He would have let go the cowboys he'd hired for the drive once it was finished, and he didn't trust many people Read More...

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Fresh Pick | HOWLING AT THE MOON by Karen MacInerney

Tales of an Urban Werewolf #1

March 2008
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Featuring: Sophie Garou
384 pages
ISBN: 0345496256
EAN: 9780345496256
Paperback
$6.99

Paranormal, Romance Paranormal, Fantasy Urban
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Howling at the Moon
by Karen MacInerney

Romance is about to get a little hairy.

Sophie Garou seems to have it all: a great job at a prestigious accounting firm, a closet that rivals a Nordstrom showroom, and a terrific boyfriend who isn’t afraid to use the “M” word. There’s just one little itty- bitty problem: Sophie is a werewolf–and her time of month has a whole new meaning.

Needless to say, life among yummy flesh-and-blood humans is no piece of steak . . . er, cake!, but regular doses of wolfsbane tea and a mother who runs a magic shop have helped Sophie keep her paranormal pedigree under wraps. Still, when a sexy, golden-eyed werewolf prowls into town, Sophie finds herself struggling to keep her animal impulses in check–not to mention trying to keep things on track with her super hot (and super human) lawyer boyfriend. What’s more, someone is threatening to expose Sophie for what she really is. And when her mother is accused of selling a poison-laced potion, Sophie must sniff out a culprit before the fur hits the fan.

This hilarious werewolf tale will keep you laughing -- and begging for more!

Excerpt

I have a secret. A big, fat, hairy secret.

And I’m not talking minor-league stuff, like I once let Joseph Applebaum feel me up behind the seventh-grade stairwell or I got a Brazilian wax after work last Friday or I’m hiding a neon blue vibrator called the Electric Slide in my night table. Which I’m not, by the way. In case you were wondering.

No, this is completely different. And as far as I knew, only two—well, technically one, but we’ll call it two—people in the entire world knew about it.

Until this morning.

Usually, I waltz into my office at Withers and Young with my skinny latte, extra foam, and find nothing but a neat stack of manila folders waiting for me. Today, however, next to the manila folders—labeled with the new Read More...

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Fresh Pick | DEGREES OF SEPARATION by Sue Henry

A Jessie Arnold Mystery #12
April 2009
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Featuring: Jessie Arnold; Alex Jensen
288 pages
ISBN: 0451223705
EAN: 9780451223708
Paperback
$6.99
Mystery Woman Sleuth
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Degrees Of Separation
by Sue Henry

Champion musher Jessie Arnold has been out of racing for a number of years, ever since she incurred a devastating knee injury. Now she's ready to get back into shape for this year's Iditarod. While taking her team on a practice run down a local trail she takes a snowy bump that's never been there before. It turns out to be a snow-shrouded body.

Now, Jessie and her boyfriend, Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen, are back chasing criminals. And the hunt is on for the killer of a supposed earthquake victim—whose death turns out to actually be a murder.


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Fresh Pick | WHERE HEAVEN BEGINS by Rosanne Bittner

April 2007
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Featuring: Elizabeth Breckenridge; Clint Brady

384 pages
ISBN: 037378595X
EAN: 9780373785957
Paperback
$6.99


Religious Fiction Romance, Religious Fiction Historical
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Where Heaven Begins

by Rosanne Bittner

With rough miners for shipmates, Elizabeth Breckenridge
sets sail to search for her brother in Alaska, wild with the 1890s gold rush. When she falls overboard midjourney, she is rescued by a man very unlike her minister brother— Clint Brady, a cynical bounty hunter who shoots to kill.

Together, this unlikely couple struggles to survive the rugged dangers of the beautiful Alaskan frontier. Unexpectedly, Clint comes to love her, and proposes.
Elizabeth returns his love, but unless she can help Clint see that heaven is no abstraction in the sky, the grip of the past could cost them a future together….

Excerpt

Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause;
And deceive not with thy lips.
—Proverbs 24:28
San Francisco, August 4, 1898
"We've taken a vote, Elizabeth. We understand you will need to find a job and a place to live, and we are ready to help you there, but you will have to leave Reverend Selby's residence."

Elizabeth Breckenridge felt as though the blood was leaving her body, beginning with her head and draining down toward her feet. She had no doubt what had caused this meeting of church deacons who sat circled around her with looks of condemnation on their faces.

"May I have an explanation?, she asked, fighting not to cry. Elizabeth always cried when Read More...


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Fresh Pick | BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE by Cindi Myers, Jennifer Greene, Merline Lovelace

January 2010
On Sale: January 12, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0373837399
EAN: 9780373837397
Mass Market Paperback
$7.99

Romance Anthology
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Baby, It's Cold Outside
by Cindi Myers, Jennifer Greene, Merline Lovelace

The best way to keep warm…when the weather turns cold:

1) Seek shelter

Opting to spend the holidays in solitude, Emilie Bartlett has found the perfect place: a hunting lodge in Alaska! But when a hunky stranger comes seeking shelter during a blizzard, Emilie wonders if maybe isolation is overrated, after all….

2) Build a cozy fire

Nothing ruins an adventure to Antarctica like being stranded on a lifeboat! But when a hot Air Force pilot rescues Mia Harrelson, she wonders if she's escaped the danger of freezing only to lose herself in the sexy fire of his eyes….

3) Curl up with a nice, hot male…

She is a consummate professional. Until Stacy Bristol finds herself working on a series of photo shoots with a gorgeous Viking—er, Olympic skier. But the minute his shirt comes off, Stacy is torn between icy professional resolve…and her melting knees!

MELTING POINT by Cindi Myers
Kristjan Gunnarson is Iceland's first ever Olympic medalist. Coloradoan Stacy Bristol thinks he'll be the perfect model for her new advertising campaign, but she isn't prepared for the impact handsome Kristjan has on her. As she supervises filming around Iceland, Stacy fights her attraction to Kristjan. Can a down-to-business American and a footloose Icelander find love in the land of ice and fire?

Excerpt

When Emilie Bartlett heard the battering thuds below—it sounded as if someone's fist was pounding on the front door—she burrowed under the heap of blankets without bothering to open her eyes.

She wasn't sleeping.

She hadn't slept since she could remember.

But there was no one at the front door. There couldn't be. When the seaplane brought her in two days before, the blizzard had been predicted. The pilot had argued and protested about leaving her, but Emilie knew what she was getting into.

She hadn't spent time in her family's Alaskan lodge in years, but the week before Christmas, the weather was predictable. The snow had started yesterday, silent and soft. Then the wind began—tufty and capricious at first.

By midyesterday, the view from Read More...

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Fresh Pick | CHILL by Stephanie Rowe

Alaskan Pilots #2

December 2009
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Featuring: Isabella Kpoas; Luke Webber
336 pages
ISBN: 0505527766
EAN: 9780505527769
Mass Market Paperback
$7.99

Romance Suspense
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Chill
by Stephanie Rowe

A MAN WITH NO PAST

Luke Webber thinks he’s erased his entire history. New name, new life, no paper trail. He thinks that up in the wilds of Alaska no one will find him. He’s wrong.

A WOMAN WITH NO FUTURE

When Isabella shows up on his doorstep, she’s got a bullet in her shoulder and all that Luke’s been trying to avoid is hot on her trail. Without his help, she’ll die. But helping her will mean surrendering everything—his body, his heart...and quite possibly his life.

A fast-paced tale of adventure, suspense and romance set in the Alaska wilderness.

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Fresh Pick | WHISPER TO THE BLOOD by Dana Stabenow

Kate Shugak

December 2009
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Featuring: Kate Shugak
352 pages
ISBN: 0312944071
EAN: 9780312944070
Paperback (reprint)
$7.99

Mystery Woman Sleuth
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Whisper to the Blood
by Dana Stabenow

Inside Alaska’s biggest national park, around the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park are uneasy. “But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce” is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular Alaskan skiing champ hired by the company to improve relations with the locals, and pave the way for the mine’s expansion…

Then, just as Talia is ready to present her case at town meetings and village breakfasts, there are two brutal murders, including that of a long-standing mine opponent. The investigation falls to Trooper Jim Chopin and, as usual, he could use some help from newly elected Niniltna Native Association chairman and part-time P.I. Kate Shugak. But Kate already has her hands full with a series of attacks on snowmobilers up the Kanuyaq River and the homicide of Park villain Louis Deem. With both cases on the verge of going cold, can Kate take the heat?

Excerpt

“Grin bought out Mac Devlin.”

“Grin?”

“Global Harvest Resources Inc. GHRIn. That’s what we’re calling them around the Park, hadn’t you heard?”

“No. Appropriate, though. They have to be grinning from ear to ear.”

“To be fair, everyone is—fed, state, local.”

“Not everyone local is,” Kate said.

“Yeah.” Jim slung his jacket around a chair and pulled off the ball cap with the Alaska State Trooper insignia, running a .lant against hat hair. “And not Mac Devlin anymore, either. He’s been operating on a shoestring for years, waiting on the big strike that never came. Last fall he had to sell off all his heavy equipment to pay his outstanding bills. Well, just to gild the lily, whoever his bank is got hit hard Read More...

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Fresh Pick | ALASKAN RENEGADE by Kate Bridges

November 2009
On Sale: November 1, 2009
Featuring: Victoria Windhaven; Brant MacQuaid
288 pages
ISBN: 0373295685
EAN: 9780373295685
Mass Market Paperback
$5.99

Romance Historical
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Alaskan Renegade
by Kate Bridges

Her bounty hunter protector

In need of a bodyguard on her mission into the Alaskan wilderness, nurse Victoria Windhaven is shocked to recognize the hired gun as none other than Brant MacQuaid—a man she had thought never to see again! Brant, now a notorious bounty hunter with a burning passion for justice, had once betrayed her.
But closely confined in the stagecoach by day, and even more closely combined under the stars by night, Victoria can't help but dream of turning this renegade into ideal husband material….

Life and loving means taking chances facing insurmountable odds

Excerpt

Skagway, District of Alaska, late August 1899

That familiar and arrogant way he moved captured her attention. Wearing a tan leather vest and black shirt that barely spanned his wide shoulders, Brant MacQuaid strode down the path as though he still thought he could part the Red Sea. His granite eyes flickered at the stagecoach driver, then he turned and headed straight for her. Her heart leaped. He'd changed a great deal in the five years since Victoria Windhaven had last laid eyes on him.

He was more of a man.

I don't care, she told herself. He was one of three men who'd deserted her at a time when she'd needed him to stay. She wouldn't give him the satisfaction of knowing how devastated she'd been.

With her pulse rushing, Victoria shuffled beneath

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Fresh Pick | DOWN RIVER by Karen Harper

February 2010
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Featuring: Mitch Braxton; Lisa Vaughn
400 pages
ISBN: 0778327477
EAN: 9780778327479
Mass Market Paperback
$7.99

Romance Suspense
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Down River
by Karen Harper

In the churning water, she felt her future slipping away...

Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. But lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement.

Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles down river, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they've been swept deep into the wilderness. Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive. There's a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days instead of years.

Fast-paced and full of suspense, but will the renewed relationship end in romance?

Excerpt

Duck Lake Lodge
Near Bear Bones, Alaska
August 20, 2008

Despite the calm beauty of Duck Lake ten feet below the pine-tree-lined path, Lisa Vaughn felt compelled to watch the Wild River on the other side of the low ridge where she stood. Because the summer sun had warmed the snow-tipped Talkeetna Mountains for hours, the snowmelt river roared. When the temperature dropped at night, despite the fact the skies barely darkened, the river rumbled like distant thunder. She was amazed by the reddish-colored salmon as they battled the fierce current on their long journey upriver to their breeding grounds. It almost looked as if the river was bleeding.

But mostly the river awed Lisa because, exactly twenty-six years ago, she'd seen her mother and baby sister drown in the turbulent, foaming Read More...

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