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Adriana Anders | Best Small Town Romances

GIVEAWAY: win the first in the Blank Canvas series

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What is it about the small town romances that hits us in the feels? On a day like today (itโ€™s dark and rainy outside), I love diving into some unknown corner of America, where the characters are eccentric, the heroes are hot and the lovinโ€™ isโ€ฆ well, steamy. Iโ€™ve got a few favorites I always go back toโ€”stories where the town is as present as the people in it. These are the other small town romancesโ€”not the bright, sweet ones you might expect to encounter, but the gritty or the sexy or the ones you just canโ€™t seem to forget.

  • Susan Elizabeth Philips is the queen of the small town romance (okay, sheโ€™s the queen of a lot of things). What I love the most about these books is how seldom she pulls her punches. DREAM A LITTLE DREAM is a great example of how she digs right into the heart of some tough, real emotions and drags us readers right there with her.
  • Sarina Bowenโ€™s True North series (starting with BITTERSWEET) shows us so many facets of the beautiful Vermont countryside. These books are lovely and heart-wrenching and very, very sexy.
  • Zoe York is another author who gives good small town. In fact, her LOVE IN A SMALL TOWN might well be the perfect place to start.
  • Victoria Dahl is so good at these quirky small town characters! In TALK ME DOWN, an erotic romance writer arrives in tiny Tumble Creek in search of inspiration. Luckily for us, the police chief provides itโ€ฆ in spades.
  • Before penning darker erotic romances as M. Oโ€™Keefe, Molly Oโ€™Keefe gave us fun, sexy romps in the tiny town of Bishop, Arkansas. WILD CHILD brings together a mayor, a reality star turned author, and a town on the verge of bankruptcy. Itโ€™s the perfect blend of sweet, sexy, and tear-jerkingly real.
Under Her
Skin

What do you look for in a romance? Does small town always equal sweet or do you like yours a bit spicy? Tell us below to win UNDER HER SKIN, the first book in the Blank Canvas series.

BY HER TOUCH by Adriana Anders

Blank Canvas #2

By Her
Touch

He Will Always Bear the Scars

Undercover cop Clay Navarro left the Sultans biker gang a changed man. Its ringleaders may be awaiting trial, but he wears the memory of every brutal act he was forced to commit tattooed across his skin. He doesn't have space in his messed-up life for anything gentleโ€”not now, maybe not ever.

Dr. Georgette Hadley is drawn to the damaged stranger's pain, intimidated but intrigued by the warmth that lies beneath Clay's frightening exterior. But when the Sultans return looking for revenge, she finds herself drawn into the dirty underbelly of a life forged in violence...that not even her touch may be able to heal.

Romance Contemporary [Sourcebooks Casablanca, On Sale: April 4, 2017, Mass Market Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781492633877 / eISBN: 9781492633884]

About Adriana Anders

Adriana Anders

Adriana Anders has acted and sung, slung cocktails and corrected copy. Sheโ€™s worked for start-ups, multinationals and small nonprofits, but it wasnโ€™t until she returned to her first loveโ€”writing romanceโ€”that she finally felt like sheโ€™d come home. Today, she resides with her tall French husband, two small children and fat French cat in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she writes the dark, gritty, emotional love stories of her heart.

Blank Canvas

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Comments

14 comments posted.

Re: Adriana Anders | Best Small Town Romances

I love all levels of heat no matter the locale in my reading! Thanks for sharing!
(Colleen Conklin 12:49pm April 13, 2017)

I love small town romance there always fun
(Emily Stemp 2:12pm April 13, 2017)

NO"Gives good small town" .......Love it!
All my favorite small towns have a tad bit of spice to them!
;)
(Kathleen Bylsma 4:17pm April 13, 2017)

small town romances are always the best!
(Jaclyn Kolhoff 3:11am April 14, 2017)

Actually i do not like this article but what power is seen
over time so likes me.
video bokep
(Seo Arya 6:00am April 14, 2017)

I grew up in a small town and those romances are the best!
(Mary Smith 6:19am April 14, 2017)

I love sweet and steamy. It all depends on the story and
the characters.
(Tanja Dancy 4:15pm April 14, 2017)

I adore Romance novels, especially Historical and Western books
(Tiffany Miles 8:32am April 15, 2017)

Small town is so appealing, special and captivating. Memorable
novels.
(Sharon Berger 2:11pm April 15, 2017)

small town , sweet and steamy I love them all!!
(Jennifer Beck 7:33am April 16, 2017)

I like a variety of settings - as long as there is romance
with an HEA!
(Diane Sallans 6:25pm April 16, 2017)

I enjoy reading all types of romance, including small town, big city, sweet, or steamy.
(Bonnie H 11:04am April 18, 2017)

The setting doesn't matter as long as the chemistry is right and there are exciting events occurring.
(Anna Speed 1:05pm April 18, 2017)

A good story is all you need, spicy is good though. Real life small town-wife
caught husband by putting his deer camera in the bedroom
(Laura Gullickson 10:18pm April 18, 2017)

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