Our NOOK First program—a chance for NOOK readers to be the first to get access to some hot new books—is off to a great start. I’m excited to introduce the next eight titles in the program, available now only for NOOK readers.
Badlands Bride tells the story of Lily Highfill, who’s spent long years in Denver, exiled from her wealthy, high-society family in Boston. With a betrothal to a titled Englishman nearly in her pocket and an invitation to return home to Boston in hand, Lily thinks her future is set and decides to spend her final month out West at her grandfather’s fossil dig in the Colorado badlands. Then a famous frontier journalist enters the bone hunters’ camp and stirs up trouble—and her heart.
In Heiress Without A Cause, a disgraced son with a dark reputation, William “Ferguson” Avenel, is content to live in exile – until his father dies in the scandal of the Season. With rumors of insanity swirling around them, his sisters desperately need a chaperone. Ferguson thinks he’s found the most proper woman in England – and he won’t ruin her, even if he secretly desires the passionate woman trapped beneath a spinster’s cap.
Every stolen kiss could lead to discovery, and Ferguson’s old enemies are determined to ruin them both. But as their dangerous passion ignites their hearts and threatens their futures, how can an heiress who dreams of freedom deny the duke who demands her love?
Bestselling author Lucy Kevin is back with a new contemporary romance series. After Julie Delgado's restaurant closes, she temporarily takes over the catering position at the Rose Chalet, a full-service San Francisco wedding venue. In The Wedding Gift, Julie plans to dazzle the bride and groom so the Chalet’s owner will keep her around, but fate has other plans for her when the bride’s brother shows up to the first food tasting, instead.
Andrew Kyle is not only the Cuisine Channel’s Edgy Eats host and chef, but his recent review of Julie’s restaurant was the final nail in her restaurant's coffin. Andrew sees food as passion, and once he meets Julie he’s certain she's playing it safe...and he wants nothing more than to be the one to break her guarded passions loose.
But despite the undeniable sparks between Julie and Andrew - and the fact that he seems to believe in her when no one else does - can she afford to be taking risks with her cooking, with her career…or with her heart?
In Concert collects the collaborative short fiction of Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem, who have worked at the cutting edge of imaginative fiction for over a quarter century. In the twenty-one tales herein, the reader will find fear, joy, and mystery. In Concert showcases the wide range of their collaborative work. The title story tells of a lonely elderly woman who achieves rapport with a lost astronaut through the power of music. In “The Icy Region My Heart Encircles,” an aging Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, keeps the heart of her late husband on the mantel and is haunted by her dead children and the living incarnation of her Monster. And in “The Man on the Ceiling,” the authors take turns telling of the fears and darkness common to all families, while reminding the reader that “everything I tell you is true.”
Kali's Tale is the third full length novel in The DeChance Chronicles. When Kali, a young vampire under the protection of the High Council in San Valencez, decides she must depart on a "Blood Quest," an attempt to kill the vampire who created her, Donovan DeChance is contacted to watch over her. What starts as a simple babysitting mission grows darker as Donovan uncovers secrets about the ancient vampire, George Starkey, alchemist, plague survivor, and much more dangerous than anything the High Council, or even Kali, could imagine. Along the way Donovan and his partner and lover, Amethyst, travel through ancient portals, run afoul of the shade of a blues musician in a Memphis Juke Joint, and finally find themselves in Old Mill, North Carolina, set against an enemy more powerful and devious than any they've encountered, and an evil dark enough to drown the world.
London, 1593. Christopher Marlowe, playwright, spy, and renowned womanizer, is desperately working on what could be his greatest play. But inspiration eludes him, until a chance encounter with a dark temptress rekindles his passion and the words start to flow with that famous passion.
This new occult thriller from bestselling authors Aaron Rosenberg and Steven Savile combines Elizabethan theatre, ancient mythology, and ageless seduction to create a dark, gripping tale that is both as old as time itself and wholly original.
What happens if the husband you've loathed for years suddenly died? In A Rural Affair, Poppy Shilling’s about to find out. But that's not the only thing she'll discover: her husband Phil wasn't the man she thought he was -- and she might not be the woman she thought she was, either. A #1 bestselling author in the UK with 10 bestsellers to her credit, the woman Marian Keyes calls "possibly my favorite writer, " crafts a "what if" read that will make your heart sing as you slip into the English countryside.
From the Nez Perce Indian reservation in Idaho to New York’s Central Park is a straight line right through Bill Diehl’s last and most intriguing lead character, Micah Cody.
There are seven basic ways to die. In 1969 Dr. John C. Cavanaugh catalogued them all in his Primer of Forensic Pathology-Cast Studies for the Novice M.E.
Micah Cody is a 30-something NYPD captain of homicide, who’s founded a special unit known as TAZ with city-wide license to take over any investigation at all, with special focus on serial killers. Now its ultimate challenge is on the loose in Manhattan, with three victims already whose causes of death seem like intentional defiance of TAZ’s existence—and four to go in four deadly days leading up to Halloween. Chronicling it all with great amusement is the Capote-like award-winning crime writer Ward Hamilton who, egged on by his sexually voracious socialite bedmate, is determined to bring TAZ to its knees journalistically.
Seven Ways to Die is a non-stop thrill ride with Diehl doing to the end what he did best throughout his bestselling career.
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