Penance by Sharon Sala. After being shot, Nicole Masters's "penance" for cheating death dictates that she must help others, even if it means putting herself in danger. Now she and Detective Dominic Tucci, a neighbour determined to make Nicole accept her new gift team up to rescue an innocent child before time runs out. Also features After the Lightning by Janis Reams Hudson and Seeing Red by Debra Cowan.
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A small-town librarian by day, Amelia Beauchamp transforms into miniskirt-clad cocktail waitress Amber Champion by night, catching the eye of the town's biggest rake, Tyler Savage. A shorter Silhouette title from one of our more beloved authors, Amber by Night is a title to start reading late at night when you can’t sleep. Short enough so that it won’t keep you up until 3am, and satisfying enough that will put it down with a sigh – our favourite kinds of late night reads!
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Can a prostitute and a town drunk escape their past to find happiness and redemption? Ex-prostitute, Leticia Murphy is hell-bent on redemption, even if it kills her. However, Eulis is not averse to turning over a new leaf, as well. If they pretend to be a preacher and a "sister", will it be enough for salvation?
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This it the third instalment in what has been an emotionally wrenching series. if you love Linda Howard’s Cry no More, don’t miss these. Cat Dupree would love nothing more than to settle down and build a life with fellow bounty hunter Wilson McKay. But Soloman Tutuola, the man who murdered her father and slashed her throat when she was thirteen haunts her even from the grave.
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Tragedy and emotionally wrenching romance go hand in hand with Sharon Sala and we cant get enough! At the reading of her father's will, Maria Slade receives shocking news- as a four-year-old, she'd witnessed her prostitute mother's murder and been taken into hiding by the well-meaning preacher who'd raised her as his own.
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Savannah Slade is not the person she thought she was. The reading of her father's will has led her to a world-shattering revelation: her sisters are not her blood kin and she may be the heiress to a massive fortune. Her not-quite-fiancé Judd doesn't care where she came from, he only wants her by his side. But the primal need to uncover her past wins out, and Savannah trades the Montana ranges for Miami's moneyed oceanside enclaves. The wealthy and powerful Stoss family is less than overjoyed to find that Gerald Stoss's daughter has emerged from the past. But theirs is a clan seldom troubled by inconveniences. They've always had the means to eradicate any blemish on their perfect lives. One more won't make a difference. They hadn’t counted on Savannah’s toughness. Or on Judd.
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This series has been a return to Sharon Sala of old – taut, horrifying suspense, ultra protective heroes and great romance. Her father's deathbed confession reveals that Holly's real father was almost certainly the notorious serial killer known as "The Hunter," and that her mother gave Holly up to save her life. But The Hunter was never caught and Holly's mother has just simply vanished.
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We adore Sharon Sala’s novels of romantic suspense that feature intense emotion, tragedy, damaged characters and riveting crime. Start your addiction with this first book of the Storm Front trilogy. Writer Cari North thought she knew all there was to know about plot twists until she stumbled across her ex-fiancé, Lance Morgan, digging a shallow grave in the Louisiana woods. After one horrifying moment of shared recognition, Cari knew her life hinged upon whether she could outrun Lance and the hurricane-spawned tornado that was barrelling down on their heels.
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Penniless and homeless from a turn of bad luck China Brown witnesses the murder of a journalist and almost becomes a casualty herself. While recuperating in the hospital, she becomes emotionally attached to a detective as she struggles to remember details of the crime, unaware her safety is still threatened.
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We so desperately hoped there would be a second book to feature bounty hunter Cat Dupree after Nine Lives ended on such a cliff hanger. These should definitely be read in sequence! He killed her once… Throat slashed and left for dead next to her murdered father, a thirteen-year-old girl vows to hunt down the man who did this to them - Solomon Tutuola. Now grown, bounty hunter Cat Dupree lets nothing or no one stand in the way of that deadly promise. Not even her lover, Wilson McKay.
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Two decades ago, Sarah Jane Whitman's father disappeared with an embezzled fortune from his local bank, an act of betrayal that subjected his wife and daughter to a vicious scandal. Now a body has been pulled from its watery tomb, a body that is identified as Frank Whitman's. This grim discovery proves Sarah's father was innocent and that the real thief got away with murder.
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When threatening letters and phone calls drive Samantha Carlyle from her career as one of Hollywood's hottest casting directors, she knows where to turn for help. John Thomas Knight, her childhood love, now a handsome lawman, sweeps Sam back to Texas for a showdown with the enemy, and to rekindle desire.
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Two dreams could come true for Diamond Houston when her idol, Jesse Eagle, walks into the rundown roadhouse where she is singing for tips. Tall and temptingly handsome, Jesse just might be Diamond's ticket to Nashville. And Jesse does something special to her when their eyes meet — lighting passionate fires inside Diamond with the unspoken promise of nights to remember and the one thing she desires most of all: true love.
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Add to your Sharon Sala collection with this second title to be reprinted this month.
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Let’s get that special man to the altar! In Sala's It Happened One Night, Harley Jane Beaumont goes to Vegas and wakes up married to hunky Sam Clay. In Browning's Marrying a Millionaire," Grace McCall gets all hot and bothered by Chandler Daye and in Bagwell's The Bride's Big Adventure, Gloria Rhodes escapes her handpicked fiancé in the arms of red-blooded cowboy Spencer Tate. Three brand new romances by three of our favourite Silhouette authors.
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Whether she’s writing as Sharon Sala or Dinah McCall, you can be assured that you are in for a reading treat. Emotionally intense, captivating and suspenseful, these are always books to treasure. All his life, Jonah Gray Wolf has had an uncanny connection to animals and the power to heal the sick and wounded. Driven from the only home he's ever known by those who wish to harness his gift for profit, he becomes a drifter, working in out-of-the-way towns, never staying long. It's a lonely life, but Jonah knows he's still being hunted he can't afford to get close to anyone who might learn his secret.
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From the moment he spies Lucky Houston stepping off a bus into the dazzle of Las Vegas, with nothing except a gift for dealing cards and a promise to keep - Nick Chenault is hooked. Nick has been around town long enough to know a winner when he sees one. And this strong-willed lovely with a Tennessee drawl that could melt glaciers is just what he needs... and wants!
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Warning, warning! This book is creepy as well as unbelievably romantic! Aaaand, just when you thought you knew all the wounded heroes you could possibly know, here’s Wes Holden! He’s been a POW and is struggling with a big-time case of post traumatic stress disorder. You know the sort – a car backfires and he ducks, reaching for his gun to fire back. To cap things off his wife and child are killed in a brutal scene and Wes totally loses his fragile hold on reality for a while. This was pretty hard to read, folks, but you’ll stop crying and cheer Wes on before long. When he finally emerges from his fog he meets Ally Monroe, a sweet, crippled woman caring for her father and brothers. He starts to hope that he might heal, after all. That’s enough for one book, really, but whoa! On top of the mountain above Ally’s home, a mad genetic scientist is nurturing a crop of a new, mutant plant he plans to launch on the market as an addictive designer drug. Things go horribly wrong in an explosive, fiery climax you won’t believe until you read it! Lock the door and turn the light on before you start. Wow! REISSUE
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We love the emotion and intensity of Sharon Sala but sometimes she falls a bit too hard on the angst wagon! Beth Venable has seen too much. Witness to a major mob hit, she's placed in protective custody until the trial. But after her third safe house is riddled with bullets, she goes off-grid to save herself. What the FBI can't do, her kinfolk will. The beautiful but forbidding Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky welcome Beth back, dirt roads and rustic shacks a world apart from L.A.
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You simply can’t go past Sharon Sala for dark, gripping intensely emotional romantic suspense and this latest release from her sounds especially good. Bounty hunter Cat Dupree first cheated death when she was thirteen. The second time left her orphaned and scarred and the only thing that will diminish her lust for revenge is finding the man who left her for dead as she watched him murder her father. Every job she takes is an opportunity to invade the criminal world that hides the tattooed man who ruined her life. And she hopes to hunt him down on her current mission into the rugged deserts of Mexico, where there is no law to watch her back.
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In her author’s note, Sharon writes: …I dedicate this book to those who have been stricken with diseases that have no cures, and to the children who have suffered hell on earth from abuse at others’ hands. Fate was often not kind to you, but know that we have cried for you when you could not cry for yourself. This is a tender tribute to these unknown victims, teamed with a ten-hanky romance. Street artist Jade and fellow victim Raphael are constantly on the run, fleeing from a childhood of misery and horrific sexual abuse in an evil cult, always terrified their nightmare past will catch up with them. When ex-cop Luke Kelly suddenly reunites Jade with her long lost, loving father, the past raises its beastly head with sudden violence. There are monsters who want to silence Jade and Raphael before they’re exposed, and nothing will stop these people in their murderous rampage to cover sick sins. This incredible story will make you weep and gasp for the damaged, innocent children of abuse, and weep again as Luke and Jade realize that nothing can heal like the power of love. REISSUE
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No stranger to responsibility, Queen was the one who cared for her younger sisters when their errant dad was otherwise occupied. Now that the girls are all grown up, Queen is finally free to pursue her own dreams. And she knows they're bound to take her farther than the Tennessee hills - some day.
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First published in 2000 as Dinah McCall, this emotional thriller is back in print. Twenty-five years after the brutal climax of a longtime blood feud, Katherine Fane returns to Camarune, Kentucky to bury the woman who had raised her, and finds herself drawn into a town torn apart by its dark secrets and violent past, as she reawakens the ghosts of a fateful night. REISSUE
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Like a bat out of hell, undercover DEA agent Sonora Jordan jumped on her motorcycle and blasted off to parts unknown, foiling the deadly drug dealers who had put a price on her head. Sonora felt compelled by a mystical force beyond her comprehension, especially the haunting dreams of a man whose place in her life she had yet to discover.
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Two classic oldies by one of our favourite authors, don’t miss out on this romantic duo.
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What a boon for fans of Sharon Sala (also writing as Dinah McCall) with two oold favourites available again. Second Chances is a moving contemporary tale, again in the style of Tallchief, written by Sharon as Dinah McCall, and reminiscent of Barbara Freethy and Catherine Anderson. Stunning contemporary romances that you simply must read. Fate leads a woman to a sprawling Texas ranch where she meets the rugged, sexy cowboy she had briefly encountered during a chance meeting. Although he's the best thing that ever happened to her, a voice inside her tells her to run, while nothing on Earth will stop him from grabbing a second chance at love.
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It's December in Manhattan. Falling snow blankets the city and covers the body of a murdered woman who bears a special message from a twisted killer. High in her elegant apartment, bestselling mystery author Caitlin Bennett shivers in fear, holding the latest in a string of notes from a deranged "fan." No longer able to endure the growing terror alone, Caitlin agrees to hire ex-cop Connor "Mac" McKee as a bodyguard.
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Whenever we’re in the mood for a bit of a cry, we reach for Sweet Baby by Sharon Sala – one of our all time favourites. Laced with suspense and like Catherine Anderson’s wrenching contemporary romances, this is an emotional roller coaster of a book that will have you cheering for the inevitable happy ending. Heroine Victoria Lancaster reminds us of Eve Dallas of the addictive In Death books by JD Robb and while hero Brett Hooker isn’t in Roarke’s financial league, he sure matches him in tenacity when it comes to getting his woman!
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If you’ve been left in any doubt about Sharon Sala’s talent, the first two Storm Front books would have put them top rest. Emotional, tragic, romantic and beautifully written, this suspense trilogy proves that Sharon Sala is well-deserving of her keeper status. Shell-shocked after a nightmarish school shooting, Amalie Pope retreats to an aging plantation house near Bordelaise, Louisiana, to heal, physically and emotionally. She's there barely an hour when a tornado rips through bayou country, mercifully leaving the house intact. She's stranded, but unafraid until a knock on the door.
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It’s quite apt that we were Blown Away by the first book of this series, an appropriately named book if we’ve ever since one. Time to be Torn Apart, followed by Swept Aside in August. This month’s Harlequin/Mira titles are short on blurb info – c’mon publishers and authors – get your act together and update your website with this information! What we do know, is that when Katie Earles’s son is missing after a fatal tornado rips through her hometown, she knows her son isn’t one of the victims. Instead, he has been kidnapped by a sick monster and though no one will believe her, she sets out to find the truth and bring back her boy – with or without her estranged husband’s help.
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Without fail, Sharon Sala makes us cry and sigh. Tormented characters, bad luck, danger and wrenching emotion are her hallmark and she wields each with skill. John Nightwalker is a strong, rugged Native American soldier who has seen many battles. While hunting down an old enemy, he crosses paths with Alicia Ponte. On the run from her father, a powerful arms manufacturer, Alicia seeks to expose her father's traitorous crimes of selling weapons to terrorists. But Richard Ponte will do anything to stay below the radar - even if it means killing his own daughter.
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With the news that their first honest-to-goodness preacher is coming the whole town is in a stir, including Leticia Murphy, the only whore left at the White Dove Saloon. What they don't know is that the good reverend is actually a rake on the run from a cluster of angry widows, disgraced virgins and their aggrieved men. But before he gets to dupe this town full of sinners, he meets his Maker in Letty's bed the very day he arrives.
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