Norse Jewel by Gina Conkle


Norse Jewel
A Viking Romance

A stolen woman of rare qualities…
AD 1022…Helena longs for her freedom. The Frankish maid wasn’t born a slave but marauding Danes have taken her. She’s desperate to escape their camp. Her savior comes as a fierce Norse chieftain, Hakan, who takes her to the far, icy north.

A powerful warrior who’s lived by the sword…
Hakan wants to lay down his sword and live a peaceful farmer’s life. Betrayal has left him cold to other women, yet his heart thaws to clever Helena. Her tender ways lure him, weaving kindness into his hard life. But, happiness is short lived. The warrior is vexed by deceit and old loyalties that call upon his sword arm.

A clash of cultures amidst a kingdom in transition…

War erupts…a kingdom’s in the balance. Can Hakan defend his homeland and keep the woman he loves?

Norse Jewel will be available June 2013

Abducting Casey by Cheryl Yeko

Kidnapped:

Held captive somewhere in the mountains by men intent on blackmail, Casey Gillette soon discovers her only chance to survive is to trust the one man among her captors who seems different from the rest.

Undercover Cop:

As an undercover cop, Matt Sash has had made plenty of tough calls in the field before, but this may be his toughest yet.

Only days away from stopping a terrorist attack in Chicago, he’s thrust into the role of protector to the beautiful woman being used as a pawn in the deadly game.

With Time Running Out:

A desperate race ensues to stop an act of terror and save the woman he loves.

Abducting Casey Coming June 2013

Taken at Dusk by C. C. Hunter

Step into Shadow Falls, a camp for teens with supernatural powers. Here friendship thrives, love takes you by surprise, and our hearts possess the greatest magic of all.

Kylie Galen wants the truth so badly she can taste it. The truth about who her real family is, the truth about which boy she’s meant to be with-and the truth about what her emerging powers mean. But she’s about to discover that some secrets can change your life forever…and not always for the better.

Just when she and Lucas are finally getting close, she learns that his pack has forbidden them from being together. Was it a mistake to pick him over Derek? And it’s not just romance troubling Kylie.

An amnesia-stricken ghost is haunting her, delivering the frightful warning, someone lives and someone dies.

Taken at Dusk available at Amazon

Volarn Chronicles I: Love’s Captive by Myra Nour

When Serena awakes, after a close and unpleasant encounter with some sort of stun gun, she learns that resistance is futile and escape only a yearned for dream.

She comes to find that she and the other Earth women have been captured by the Moyds…..interstellar merchants, and their mission is to procure fertile wives for the men of Volarn because their own race has been endangered due to the wide-spread sterility of their own women.

Serena is disgusted to realize that they are nothing in the men’s eyes but baby makers, but she’s aware that she has no other choice than to face the fate that awaits her with as much dignity as she can.

After arriving on Volarn, Serena finds that her assessment had not been entirely accurate.

The Volarn men used their power crystals in the Tarthra Ritual to approach the women to find the mate most suited to them, a woman to love and who can love them and Serena has been chosen to become King Rhamus’ Queen but, just as she feels herself weakening to him and his romantic, passionate nature, Rhamus’ enemy Xarath abducts her……

This title is a reissue.

Volarn Chronicles I: Love’s Captive available at New Concepts Publishing

My Highland Lord by – Tarah Scott

London Heiress kidnapped by the Marquess of Ashlund, read the headlines. Yet no one tried to save her.

Phoebe Wallington was seven years old when a mass assassination attempt rocked Regency England.

Her father was the only accused traitor to elude capture.

Now as a grown woman and a British spy, she is no closer to learning what really happened that day.

Phoebe’s quest for the truth takes a sudden turn when she’s kidnapped by a suspected traitor.

But Kiernan MacGregor, the Marquess of Ashlund, may not live long enough to stand trial.

Someone wants him dead. And Phoebe stands in the killer’s way.

My Highland Lord available at Amazon | Barnes & Noble | ARe

Hot Rain by Kat Martin

Allie Parker knows her best friend’s death was no accident, but her quest to find the truth soon puts her in the wrong place – at the worst possible time…

An unwilling passenger on a boat carrying deadly cargo and dangerous men, her only ally is mysterious Jake Dawson, who warns her that she must play the role of his reluctant bedmate…if she wants to stay alive.

Under any other circumstances, she’d welcome the attentions of a man with Jake’s powerful body and seductive deep blue eyes.

But as Allie places her body – and her trust – in the hands of a total stranger, she wonders if this desperate gamble will be her last…

Hot Rain available at Amazon

When Darkness Falls (The Alliance Vampires) by Heather Graham

In an ancient cemetery, travel writer Jade MacGregor’s tour of a Scottish tomb is marred by a terrifying attack that leaves her surrounded by corpses drained of blood.

A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses the oddly compelling stranger she met that day. Coincidence – or is it something far more disturbing?

Surrounded by her friends and engrossed in her work, Jade should feel secure.

But then new bodies start showing up, and somebody is dogging her every move.

Somebody who knows what she saw on that long ago afternoon among the gravestones and mausoleums.

Somebody who will try to rescue her from the undead waiting to make her one of them.

When Darkness Falls (The Alliance Vampires) available at Amazon

Embrace of the Enemy (Winds of Betrayal) by Jerri Hines

It’s a dangerous game you set to play, Miss Corbett. One that can have far worse than deadly consequences!

In the midst of the struggle of America’s bid for independence, Hannah Corbett makes a fateful decision, descending into a world of deceit.

Spurred by revenge, she heads to New York, setting in motion a dangerous game for which there is no return. Searching desperately for the man who betrayed her family, she faces the cold and brutal reality of the life of a spy.

Caught in a web of lies, living with betrayal, she is trapped. She has nowhere to turn except to a man it would be treasonous to love, setting duty and desire at war. Her heart is ripped apart when she must choose between the man who risks his career and life to protect her and the only thing that has remained constant in her life…her belief in her cause.

THE CRY FOR FREEDOM, BOOK ONE Winds of Betrayal Series

A rousing family saga for the fight for America’s independence. Follow Hannah and Jonathan Corbett path to Freedom!

Embrace of the Enemy (Winds of Betrayal) available at Amazon

Flirting Under a Full Moon by Ashlyn Chase

If Brandee Hanson ever wants to go from waitress to photographer, she’ll have to take some once-in-a-lifetime shots.

But when she catches the gorgeous private investigator Nick Wolfensen on camera—transforming into a werewolf—she is thrown into a world of vampires, shapeshifters, and other paranormal misfits.

In order to keep his secret and stay clear of the supernatural council, Nick will have to convince Brandee not to release the photo.

Fortunately, he was looking for an excuse to spend more time with the beautiful waitress anyway.

Flirting Under a Full Moon available at Amazon

Prophecy of the Flame: Book One by Lynn Hardy

In a blinding flash of light, five strangers are yanked from this world and thrust into a land of sorcery as they are granted the looks and abilities of the people they were playing.

This band of wannabe heroes soon discovers that having the powers they have always dreamed of, does not make life a dream come true.

The Crusaders of the Light struggle to form a cohesive band as they blend twentieth century technology with the supernatural powers of this new world, fighting to liberate the kingdom of Cuthburan from the evil horde threatening humanity.

Battle is also waged within Reba, an ordinary housewife who has become the most powerful mage on the planet, as she struggles to remain true to her wedding vows.

Drawn against her will to the arms of Prince Alexandros, Reba must choose between a marriage to a handsome prince in a magical world or returning to the husband she left behind.

Prophecy of the Flame: Book One available at Amazon

Sex on the Beach by Susan Lyons

Everyone’s cordially invited to attend the steamiest wedding of the year…

Sarah believes every woman deserves a wedding- even if she hasn’t found her own guy yet. Freeman is the groom’s best friend, and he’s out to save his buddy from the mistake of marriage.

When Sarah and Free meet, it’s war between the sexes. New York model Tamiko Sato has come to Belize as the arm-candy for the bride’s macho (and deep-in-the-closet) uncle.

The ruse is threatened when a resort manager catches her eye.

But Giovanna is still the passionate woman the conservative professor married-and she’s out to make him remember their own hot wedding night.

Sex on the Beach available at Amazon

Destiny by Karen Wiesner

How do you know destiny when it knocks on your door, or recognize it if it’s always been there?

Christian Riley, Elizabeth Horace, and Oscar Albright grew up together, the clichéd “church kids”, but Chris quickly found everything about his life stifling.

When he moves to Los Angeles to get away from everything his existence has dictated for him, he doesn’t expect Elizabeth to follow him, but he’s known for as long as he can remember that she loves him obsessively…just as Oscar loves her.

With Chris’s faith in tatters, he has no interest in Christianity let alone morality. Yet in the thirteen years that follow, he finds himself returning to Elizabeth whenever he hits rock bottom.

When a serial killer/rapist’s attack of Elizabeth is mercifully thwarted, Chris’s world collapses in on him. The attack has changed Elizabeth. She realizes she’s put her life on hold for too long.

Has Chris fallen in love when his angel of mercy is no longer available to him? Destiny… Do you believe?

Destiny available at Karen Wiesner’s site

The Pure by Claire Gillian

No one ever said Gayle Lindley’s first job would be a killer.

Fresh out of college, Gayle’s career path should follow the yellow brick road straight to the top. Thanks to a menial errand gone wrong, a wayward tongue, and a randy supervisor who won’t take ‘no’ for an answer, Gayle’s stuck in corporate hell.

Discovering a company secret only turns up the heat.

Then again, with all Gayle has been through, maybe falling in love is the lucky break she needs.

Hitting the cool sheets with Jon soothes her mind and body, but it also enrages whoever’s behind the smokescreen she’s uncovered at work. Someone is willing to kill to protect their secrets, and Gayle and Jon are the targets.

The Pure available at Amazon

The Laird (A Castle Blackstone Novel) by Sandy Blair

A multiple award-winning paranormal time travel fiction set in medieval Scotland, The Laird contains alpha male Highlanders, ghosts, action, suspense, humor, drama, history and romance.

Cursed on his death bed centuries ago, the laird of Castle Blackstone, Duncan MacDougall, wanders the echoing halls of his island bound home as a ghost.

Knowing only one woman has the power to set him free, he follows his castle’s newest mistress with great interest as she tours her inheritance for the first time. Could this plain, odd woman from across the sea be the one?

Raised in the New York foster care system, street-wise catering director Beth Pudding isn’t easily frightened. But then she isn’t alone in her new home.

Her hunt for answers soon takes both on a journey of discovery neither could never have imagined.

The Laird (A Castle Blackstone Novel) available at Amazon