It has been a busy summer for BWL authors and I'm excited to share some terrific new releases
Grace MacKinnon’s widowhood promises little but a life of drudgery under
her father-in-law’s oppressive rule. When quiet rebellion turns to
opportunity, she books passage on an Atlantic steamer only to face near
disaster in Halifax harbour.
Her future looks doomed from the start until with the help of a sympathetic stranger, she arrives on Prince Edward Island. Her new found independence drives her to undertake a brave new adventure in a male dominated world, and a chance encounter with Lucy Maud Montgomery brings her a surprising ally.
Despite the challenges, Grace keeps her head and prevails, until an encounter with bootleggers during Canadian Prohibition threatens to topple her hard won success.Can Grace trust those she goes to for help, or as a woman alone in turn of the century Charlottetown are the odds stacked against her?
Her future looks doomed from the start until with the help of a sympathetic stranger, she arrives on Prince Edward Island. Her new found independence drives her to undertake a brave new adventure in a male dominated world, and a chance encounter with Lucy Maud Montgomery brings her a surprising ally.
Despite the challenges, Grace keeps her head and prevails, until an encounter with bootleggers during Canadian Prohibition threatens to topple her hard won success.Can Grace trust those she goes to for help, or as a woman alone in turn of the century Charlottetown are the odds stacked against her?
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Cursed to an immortal life, Kai is bound by honour to protect the mortal world for eternity. A loner, he avoids humans but that changes when he rescues a university student from a brutal attack. Without sight and alone, she seems virtually helpless and Kai is disgusted by his intense reaction. Irresistibly drawn to her, he is determined to resist the attraction, yet compelled to protect her when he learns she has no family. To shelter her from his enemies, he whisks her to a secluded cabin in the mountains to recover from her injuries.
When university student Emma Carlisle wakes up from a brutal assault, she is unable to see. The sexy-voiced stranger taking care of her is determined to remain by her side and keep her safe regardless of her feelings on the matter. Fiercely independent, Emma struggles to maintain some control of her life while she indulges in the instant attraction they share and dares to tempt the reluctant immortal. Unfortunately, being with Kai puts her in even more danger as his enemies pursue him for a taste of his immortality.
If you like a sexy, strong immortal like Karen Marie Moning's Immortal Highlander, you'll fall in love with Billie Turner's immortal in Out of Darkness.
From Canadian Author Billie Turner, just released a paranormal suspense that is sure to keep you glued to the pages - with the lights left one - until you've read the very last word
Cursed to an immortal life, Kai is bound by honour to protect the mortal world for eternity. A loner, he avoids humans but that changes when he rescues a university student from a brutal attack. Without sight and alone, she seems virtually helpless and Kai is disgusted by his intense reaction. Irresistibly drawn to her, he is determined to resist the attraction, yet compelled to protect her when he learns she has no family. To shelter her from his enemies, he whisks her to a secluded cabin in the mountains to recover from her injuries.
When university student Emma Carlisle wakes up from a brutal assault, she is unable to see. The sexy-voiced stranger taking care of her is determined to remain by her side and keep her safe regardless of her feelings on the matter. Fiercely independent, Emma struggles to maintain some control of her life while she indulges in the instant attraction they share and dares to tempt the reluctant immortal. Unfortunately, being with Kai puts her in even more danger as his enemies pursue him for a taste of his immortality.
If you like a sexy, strong immortal like Karen Marie Moning's Immortal Highlander, you'll fall in love with Billie Turner's immortal in Out of Darkness.
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From Australian author Priscilla Brown, a romance novel that finds a couple rekindling chemistry
For mechanic Billie, fixing cars is easier than fixing her love life.
She runs her successful business, raises a teenage boy, and has a loving
family, but she’s missing a special someone. When childhood friend Zac,
whose family secretly left town years ago, calls into her service
station by chance, they’re astonished to come across each other.
A freelance photographer, Zac shocks himself with the sudden need to stay a while in this small historic country town and get to know Billie again. Working together to deal with the alarming unsympathetic redevelopment of the town including loss of her business, they are concerned when related evidence surfaces of an unsavory clandestine past association between their families.
Their friendship blossoms; for Zac, struggling to cope after a personal tragedy, warm-hearted Billie is easy to talk to, but he cannot let himself love her. Billie is unsettled to find her long-mislaid hormones leaping into life, but dare she risk loving someone carrying so much baggage? Can Zac allow Billie to help him heal?
If you loved Sally Thorne in 99 Percent Mine, you'll fall madly in love with Priscilla Brown's Finding Billie.
A freelance photographer, Zac shocks himself with the sudden need to stay a while in this small historic country town and get to know Billie again. Working together to deal with the alarming unsympathetic redevelopment of the town including loss of her business, they are concerned when related evidence surfaces of an unsavory clandestine past association between their families.
Their friendship blossoms; for Zac, struggling to cope after a personal tragedy, warm-hearted Billie is easy to talk to, but he cannot let himself love her. Billie is unsettled to find her long-mislaid hormones leaping into life, but dare she risk loving someone carrying so much baggage? Can Zac allow Billie to help him heal?
If you loved Sally Thorne in 99 Percent Mine, you'll fall madly in love with Priscilla Brown's Finding Billie.
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From Canadian author Cobe Reinbold, a young adult mystery that'll have you turning those pages like crazy trying to figure this one out
A small Idaho town is shaken by the disappearance of high school student
Mady Smith. The rumor mill suggests suicide… but Mady's body is still
missing.
It seems as though the community has accepted the explanation, but her boyfriend believes otherwise. Brian's suspicions are validated when he receives a laptop she left him. The laptop uncovers a series of clues that convince him there’s more to the story then suicide. He enlists the help of three friends to decipher the clues and solve the mystery. Throughout the journey of twists and turns, they find themselves in life threatening situations, which lead them to discover Mady’s dangerous and twisted past.
It seems as though the community has accepted the explanation, but her boyfriend believes otherwise. Brian's suspicions are validated when he receives a laptop she left him. The laptop uncovers a series of clues that convince him there’s more to the story then suicide. He enlists the help of three friends to decipher the clues and solve the mystery. Throughout the journey of twists and turns, they find themselves in life threatening situations, which lead them to discover Mady’s dangerous and twisted past.
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Apple isn’t taken in by holistic mumbo jumbo. What is this place anyway? An internal lube joint? A con center? Well no one’s fooling her. She’s keeping notes, and reporting this place’s attempt to separate gullible seniors and their money to the CIA, FBI or Homeland Security. While she gathers evidence, her personal mantra is ‘So Help Me’.
When murder takes center stage at Nithya Shanti, finding the killer and saving an innocent person takes top priority. Maya and Apple find sleuthing makes life very interesting. The two seniors unite to prove that they may be old, but they are not extinct.
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From Canadian Young Adult Author Suzanne deMontigny comes the eagerly awaited Book 3 in her award winning middle grade novel series Shadow of the Unicorn. Book 3, The Revenge
Born deep in the forest, far from the herd, Damien is kept a dark secret
by his parents until his father, Samuel, decides the colt must join the
other foals to be initiated. But the unicorns are horrified by Damien’s
birth defect. They see him as a freak despite his astonishing
abilities. Then when a rival shoves Samuel over the edge of the canyon
to his death, Damien’s talents turn deadly. Can anyone stop him before
he destroys their world?
If you liked Richard Adam's Watership Down, you'll love the series, Shadow of the Unicorn."
If you liked Richard Adam's Watership Down, you'll love the series, Shadow of the Unicorn."
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From USA author Betty Ann Harris a spicy romantic suspense pits a best selling romance author and her special FBI agent against a deadly stalker
Just when she thinks her nightmare is finally over, Maggie Tyler returns
home to find a threatening note from her stalker attached to the
newspaper outside her door. She alerts the FBI, whose protection she was
under, and she’s put back into protective custody, back into the safe
arms of her protector, Stephen O’Leary, the FBI Special Agent who was
originally assigned to her case.
The FBI reopens the investigation and Stephen whisks Maggie off to a different safe location. But is she safe? The FBI thought they killed her stalker when Stephen shot the sheriff at Moon’s Peak Lake in A Very Special Agent. But the alarming and threatening note attached to her newspaper shows her stalker is still very much alive.
The FBI reopens the investigation and Stephen whisks Maggie off to a different safe location. But is she safe? The FBI thought they killed her stalker when Stephen shot the sheriff at Moon’s Peak Lake in A Very Special Agent. But the alarming and threatening note attached to her newspaper shows her stalker is still very much alive.
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From Canadian author Margaret G. Hanna comes a historical novel set on the Canadian Prairies that will tug at your heart strings and tickle your funny bone.
A tiny shack in a vast prairie. Spooked horses and straying bulls. A
town half-destroyed by fire. The year with no crop. An untimely death.
Little did Addie Wright realize what she would face when she came west from Ontario in 1910 to marry her fiancĂ©, Abraham Hanna. Based on entries in Abraham’s diaries, Our Bull’s Loose In Town! tells the story of the author’s grandparents as they built their farm and raised a family in the Meyronne district of southwestern Saskatchewan. Through trials and triumphs, sorrows and successes, the horrors of the Great War, the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties and the dark years of the Dirty Thirties, they found strength and courage in their faith, in their indomitable humour, and in their family and neighbours.
This is also the story of the rise and decline of a prairie village, and of the political and social turmoil of a province and country in the first half of the twentieth century, all as Addie lived it.
Fans of Laura Inglis Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) will love Margaret G. Hanna's "Our Bull's Loose In Town!" Tales From the Homestead.
Little did Addie Wright realize what she would face when she came west from Ontario in 1910 to marry her fiancĂ©, Abraham Hanna. Based on entries in Abraham’s diaries, Our Bull’s Loose In Town! tells the story of the author’s grandparents as they built their farm and raised a family in the Meyronne district of southwestern Saskatchewan. Through trials and triumphs, sorrows and successes, the horrors of the Great War, the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties and the dark years of the Dirty Thirties, they found strength and courage in their faith, in their indomitable humour, and in their family and neighbours.
This is also the story of the rise and decline of a prairie village, and of the political and social turmoil of a province and country in the first half of the twentieth century, all as Addie lived it.
Fans of Laura Inglis Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) will love Margaret G. Hanna's "Our Bull's Loose In Town!" Tales From the Homestead.
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From BWL Best Selling Australian author Tricia McGill, a powerful novel set in medieval times
It is 850AD and Norse warrior Rolf lands on the shores of East Anglia
determined to take revenge on a Celtic clan. Following a fierce battle,
where the Celts are savagely killed, Rolf comes face to face with the
daughter of the slain Celtic leader. So stunned by the beauty, along
with the courage of Brigid, he is convinced that his Three Fates of
Destiny brought them together. Resolved to make this woman his own, he
spares the lives of the captured Celtic women and children and takes
them back to his homeland across the ocean.
Strangely drawn to the Norseman who is so sure they are destined to be together, Brigid must fight against succumbing to the wishes of the man who killed her father. Nevertheless, to save her fellow Celtic captives from slavery or worse, Brigid must keep a bargain with the Norse leader—a bargain that will see her tied to him forever.
In present day Cornwall, naturally shy Rolf shares his secluded lighthouse with his wolfhound. An artist, he delights in the rugged scenery and ever-changing weather. While in the nearest bookshop one day, he meets a newcomer to town. Brigid’s unusual personality strikes a chord with him. Not only are both convinced they have met before, but their fascination for Viking and Celtic history forges an unusual bond between them. Outspoken and forthright, Brigid sets out to break down the barrier of reserve and caution Rolf has erected over the years. Is it simply whimsy or can lovers across centuries be reunited?
Strangely drawn to the Norseman who is so sure they are destined to be together, Brigid must fight against succumbing to the wishes of the man who killed her father. Nevertheless, to save her fellow Celtic captives from slavery or worse, Brigid must keep a bargain with the Norse leader—a bargain that will see her tied to him forever.
In present day Cornwall, naturally shy Rolf shares his secluded lighthouse with his wolfhound. An artist, he delights in the rugged scenery and ever-changing weather. While in the nearest bookshop one day, he meets a newcomer to town. Brigid’s unusual personality strikes a chord with him. Not only are both convinced they have met before, but their fascination for Viking and Celtic history forges an unusual bond between them. Outspoken and forthright, Brigid sets out to break down the barrier of reserve and caution Rolf has erected over the years. Is it simply whimsy or can lovers across centuries be reunited?
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From Canadian author J.M. Dolan a suspense novel that will confound your senses and have you questioning your reasoning skills
Just when everything is going well in her life, researcher Jamee Blair
is forced to become an amateur detective after the live-in caregiver
hired for her sister’s medical crisis, vanishes.
To track down the truth of the missing caregiver, Jamee enlists the help of modern day highlander, Samuel Craig, a politician appointed investigator into human trafficking links to international organized crime. Together, Jamee and Sam embark on a disturbing search for Odessa and, as the mystery unfolds, they find themselves navigating the twists and turns of Canada’s seedy underground immigration. Jamee’s comedy filled one-line zingers, aimed to keep Sam at arms distance, become a second chance at happiness.
When a casino chip is found with the body, Sam suspects more than a simple homicide, and when a second crime scene is discovered on a suburban Calgary beach, the search leads to so much more. In this romantic thriller, the unlikely pair uncover a conspiracy that involves murder, assassins, spies and espionage.
If you like Janet Evanovich's one-line zingers or David Baldacci's fast-paced style, you'll love the romantic suspense and intrigue of Unredeemed by J M Dolan.
To track down the truth of the missing caregiver, Jamee enlists the help of modern day highlander, Samuel Craig, a politician appointed investigator into human trafficking links to international organized crime. Together, Jamee and Sam embark on a disturbing search for Odessa and, as the mystery unfolds, they find themselves navigating the twists and turns of Canada’s seedy underground immigration. Jamee’s comedy filled one-line zingers, aimed to keep Sam at arms distance, become a second chance at happiness.
When a casino chip is found with the body, Sam suspects more than a simple homicide, and when a second crime scene is discovered on a suburban Calgary beach, the search leads to so much more. In this romantic thriller, the unlikely pair uncover a conspiracy that involves murder, assassins, spies and espionage.
If you like Janet Evanovich's one-line zingers or David Baldacci's fast-paced style, you'll love the romantic suspense and intrigue of Unredeemed by J M Dolan.
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From Canadian author J.C. Kavanagh the eagerly awaited sequel to the award winning Young Adult novel A Twisted Climb comes Darkness Descends. The Twisted Climb 2
Climbing to sleep is such a nightmare.
Jayden, Connor and Max thought they had climbed their way out of ‘falling’ to sleep. Little did they know that they would be pulled back into Richard Hatemore's dreaded dream world, triggering a new wave of adventures and paranormal terrors. When Connor’s little sister Georgia becomes trapped there, a compelling energy unites the main characters once again. It is only after they accept the ‘cross over’ invitation and join forces in the moonlit dream world that the trio finally understand their rekindled purpose: saving Georgia.
Can Jayden, Connor and Max survive the harrowing journey and strange activities in Richard's dream world, and rescue Georgia? Perhaps - but only if they’re willing to overcome their biggest fears and unlock the powers that bind them.
Jayden, Connor and Max thought they had climbed their way out of ‘falling’ to sleep. Little did they know that they would be pulled back into Richard Hatemore's dreaded dream world, triggering a new wave of adventures and paranormal terrors. When Connor’s little sister Georgia becomes trapped there, a compelling energy unites the main characters once again. It is only after they accept the ‘cross over’ invitation and join forces in the moonlit dream world that the trio finally understand their rekindled purpose: saving Georgia.
Can Jayden, Connor and Max survive the harrowing journey and strange activities in Richard's dream world, and rescue Georgia? Perhaps - but only if they’re willing to overcome their biggest fears and unlock the powers that bind them.
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From USA author Rita Karnopp the re-release of her Western historical romance novel Sacred Ground
Someone wants Brett Turner’s land badly enough to sabotage him, and he
knows just who the culprit is: his neighbor, Willow Howling Moon.
They don’t see eye-to-eye on anything. When their sons, who are best friends, run away into the mountains just before a blizzard hits, Willow and Brett have no choice but to go after them—together. In the course of the rescue, they discover an unexpected and unwelcome mutual love. The realization that both their lives are in danger finally convinces him she’s not his enemy. This heartwarming love story is set in Montana
They don’t see eye-to-eye on anything. When their sons, who are best friends, run away into the mountains just before a blizzard hits, Willow and Brett have no choice but to go after them—together. In the course of the rescue, they discover an unexpected and unwelcome mutual love. The realization that both their lives are in danger finally convinces him she’s not his enemy. This heartwarming love story is set in Montana
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Montana Territory-1868. After spending four years as a captive of the Blackfeet, Jennie Proctor must decide whether to trust the handsome white man who has come to rescue her, or spend the rest of her life a Blackfeet.
Cody Larimer has one goal in life, to rescue captive women from the Indians. When he finds the beautiful and haunting Jennie proctor, the last thing he expects is for her to tell him to leave her with the Blackfeet.
However, Jennie’s situation soon changes, and she and Cody must struggle together if they wish to survive. Feelings of anger and mistrust soon develop into mutual respect and love, leaving both of them something neither believed possible.
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On their way to a ball, eighteen-year-old Lady Margaret is reminded by
her affectionate brother, the Earl of Saunton, to consider her choice of
words before she speaks. Despite his warning, she voices her
controversial opinion to Lady Sefton, one of Almack’s lady patronesses,
who can advance or ruin a debutante’s reputation. Horrified by her
thoughtless indiscretion, Margaret runs from the ballroom into the
reception hall where she nearly slips onto the marble floor.
Baron Rochedale, a notorious rake catches her in his arms to prevent her fall. Margaret, whose family expect her to make a splendid marriage, and enigmatic Rochedale, who never reveals his secrets, are immediately attracted to each other, but Rochedale never makes advances to unmarried females.
When Margaret runs out into the street, out of chivalry it seems he must follow the runaway instead of joining his mistress in the ballroom, where anxious mothers would warn their daughters to avoid him.
Rochedale’s quixotic impulse leads to complications which force him to question his selfish way of life.
Entangled by him in more ways than one, stifled by polite society’s unwritten rules and regulations Margaret is forced to question what is most important to her.
Baron Rochedale, a notorious rake catches her in his arms to prevent her fall. Margaret, whose family expect her to make a splendid marriage, and enigmatic Rochedale, who never reveals his secrets, are immediately attracted to each other, but Rochedale never makes advances to unmarried females.
When Margaret runs out into the street, out of chivalry it seems he must follow the runaway instead of joining his mistress in the ballroom, where anxious mothers would warn their daughters to avoid him.
Rochedale’s quixotic impulse leads to complications which force him to question his selfish way of life.
Entangled by him in more ways than one, stifled by polite society’s unwritten rules and regulations Margaret is forced to question what is most important to her.
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From Australian Author Jan Selbourne comes a multiple five star reviewed WWII Historical that once you start you're not going to put this book down until you finish. It is exceptionally well-written and tells a gripping story of a soldier's life in England after surviving a hellish war
They met on the eve of a battle. One enlisted to avoid prison, the other
enlisted to avoid the money lenders. On the bloodied fields of France,
Harry Connelly collapses beside the corpse of Andrew Conroy. It’s a
risk, a hanging offence, it’s his only hope for a future. Harry swaps
identity discs.
Now known as Andrew, he is just another face in post war London until a letter arrives with a proposition. Accepting will plunge him into a nightmare of murder, family jealousy and greed.
To survive he must live this lie without a mistake, until he falls in love with Lacey. To keep her he must tell the truth and face the consequences.
Now known as Andrew, he is just another face in post war London until a letter arrives with a proposition. Accepting will plunge him into a nightmare of murder, family jealousy and greed.
To survive he must live this lie without a mistake, until he falls in love with Lacey. To keep her he must tell the truth and face the consequences.
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