Spotlight on Elizabeth Hoyt and ‘Sweetest Scoundrel’!

BOOK BLURB: She's Taking Charge Prim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother's investment. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London's premier pleasure garden, Harte's Folly, she finds herself butting heads with an infuriating scoundrel who can't be controlled. He's Running the Show Bawdy…

‘Gold!: The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation’ by Fred Rosen

STORY: On January 24, 1848, as carpenter James Marshall worked on building a sawmill at John Sutter's Fort, east of Sacramento, California, he accidentally discovered a pea-sized nugget of gold in a ditch. Just like that, the scope of the American myth changed. From 1848 to 1850, 90,000 people trekked across the continent; by 1854, that…

‘Death Comes To Kurland Hall’ by Catherine Lloyd

STORY: As wedding bells chime in Kurland St. Mary, a motley group of visitors descends on the village—and with a murderer on the prowl, some of them may not be returning home… Lucy Harrington has returned to Kurland St. Mary to help with her friend Sophia Giffin’s wedding. But her homecoming is made disagreeable by the…

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing you all a warm and happy Thanksgiving1 Connie, Leah and Melanie

‘Hargrove House’ by Allie Harrison

STORY: As a child, Torrie Reynolds entered the haunted Hargrove House on a dare. Terrified by what she'd heard while inside Hargrove House, she avoided it since. Now fifteen years later, Torrie is an interior decorator. When Will Dalton buys the infamous Hargrove House and offers Torrie the job of refurbishing it, she has no choice…

‘The Clandestine Betrothal’ by Alice Chetwynd Ley

STORY: Love in Name Only When Susan announced to her aunt that she was engaged to Beau Eversley, the most sought-after bachelor in London, she should have been the happiest girl in England. The trouble was the Beau knew nothing of the betrothal. Susan had made up the whole affair. And to make matters worse, she…

Have you been Naughty or Nice?

Dear bookworms, Happy Holidays from St. Martin’s Press! We are joining them in inviting you to join their Naughty or Nice campaign to help promote reading romance this holiday season. Have you been naughty or nice this year? They have put together a sexy collection of naughty and nice books for you to choose from. There is…

‘Miss Merton’s Last Hope’ by Heather Boyd

STORY: Over the years, Melanie Merton has used every trick and ruse to repel overeager gentlemen callers without ever revealing the real reason she won’t say yes to an offer of marriage. When neighbor Walter George jumps to her defense against slurs cast by suitor number twelve, he also pries into her past—uncovering the circumstances around…

‘Shopaholic to the Rescue’ by Sophie Kinsella

STORY: Becky Bloomwood and a hilarious cast of beloved family and friends (plus one enemy!) set off in a van to find her missing father, last heard from in Las Vegas. Becky’s father Graham and her best friend’s husband, Tarquin, have disappeared from Los Angeles saying simply they have “something to take care of.” But Tarquin’s…

Spotlight on ‘A Gentleman For All Seasons’ with Theresa Romain!

Hello, and thanks for the chance to visit bookworm2bookworm today! I’m here to chat about A Gentleman for All Seasons, a historical romance anthology that Kate Noble, Shana Galen, Vanessa Kelly, and I have just published together. From the beginning, we had in mind a project with tightly interlaced story threads. But there were so…