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BookStrand Romance Collection
Award-winning mainstream romance,
intense and exciting
...always with a happy ending
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Romance
Deadly Deliverance (MF)
by
Lorelei Confer
Categories: Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
Word Count: 54,498
Heat Rating: SENSUAL
[BookStrand Romantic Suspense]
Things get personal for Sam Brower, undercover task force detective for human trafficking, when his niece, Autumn, goes missing. To make matters worse, he’s forced to work with his ex-girlfriend, Lisa Conover, former DC cop, when she’s assigned to a cold case involving his long lost brother.
After infiltrating the gang responsible for the multiple abductions, Sam and Lisa try to unravel the stories behind the kidnapping of Autumn and the disappearance of Luke before their cover is blown.
Undercover work doesn’t lend well to trust. Even if they work together like a fine tuned instrument, will Lisa and Sam be able to salvage love after all they’ve been through?
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Command Performance (MF)
by
Sally Quilford
Categories: Contemporary
Word Count: 38,482
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Contemporary Romance]
Wealthy Vittorio d’Este believes in protecting his family, which is why he does not want his nephew, Marcus, to marry songstress Lindi Baker. On the pretext of finding out if she is a suitable mate for Marcus, he orders her to his private island for a command performance. But Lindi is not what he thinks she is. She, too, brings out all his protective instincts and teaches him how to love again. But how will he react when he learns that she has lied to him?
Singer Lindi Baker has been bullied for years, so she is in no mood to be commanded by Vittorio d’Este, no matter how gorgeous he is. Lindi agrees to accompany Vittorio to his private island at the behest of Gemma, who is the one really sleeping with Marcus. Unsophisticated Lindi does not realise until it’s too late that her own heart is at stake.
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Unfinished Business (MF)
by
Stephanie Morris
Categories: Contemporary
Word Count: 52,660
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[Bookstrand Contemporary Romance]
There is one man that Daníella Mangino has never been able to resist or say no to—her ex-husband, Carlo Carabelli. The moment he asked her to marry him, she’d known it would be forever…or so she thought. Still, the last thing she expects is for him to return, asking her for a second chance at their relationship. The timing couldn’t be worse. But what Carlo Carabelli wants, he gets…
Carlo Carabelli regrets the day that he asked his ex-wife Daníella Mangino for a divorce. The car wreck that left him struggling with learning how to walk again had nearly crushed him. He couldn’t be the man for Daníella that he swore he’d always be. Truth be told, he has never stopped loving her, but he has a secret that, once discovered, might just mean a permanent end for him and Daníella.
One thing is certain—Daníella and Carlo have unfinished business…
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Romance
The Snow Bride (MF)
by
Lindsay Townsend
Categories: Historical
Word Count: 92,037
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Historical Romance]
She is Beauty, but is he the Beast?
Elfrida, spirited, caring, and beautiful, is also alone. She is the "witch of the woods," and no man dares to ask for her hand in marriage until a beast comes stalking brides and steals away her sister. Desperate, the lovely Elfrida offers herself as a sacrifice, as bridal bait, and she is seized by a man with fearful scars. Is he the beast?
In the depths of a frozen midwinter, in the heart of the woodland, Sir Magnus, battle-hardened knight of the Crusades, searches ceaselessly for three missing brides, pitting his wits and weapons against a nameless stalker of the snowy forest. Disfigured and hideously scarred, Magnus has finished with love, he thinks, until he rescues a fourth "bride," the beautiful, red-haired Elfrida, whose innocent touch ignites in him a fierce passion that satisfies his deepest yearnings and darkest desires.
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Confessions of a Lady Ruined (MF)
by
Karen Lingefelt
Categories: Historical
Word Count: 97,619
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Historical Romance]
Julia Bassett can’t bear living in the household of the handsome lord who once charmed and then ruined her—especially while he prowls London’s ballrooms for a wife! Forced to act as his sister’s chaperone, Julia will do anything to be sent packing—even if it means engaging in the same scandalous behavior that years earlier got her banished to the country and separated from this dashing earl she still secretly loves.
Colin Everett, Earl of Danforth, enjoys seeing how far Julia will go to jeopardize her position—even to brazenly seducing him. He regrets breaking her heart so long ago, and now he’d like to win her back. But when several attempts are made on his life, he must find out if this bold vixen is seeking love…or vengeance.
Can Colin and Julia learn to trust each other—and their own hearts?
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Murder and Lies (MF)
by
K. R. Bailey
Categories: Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
Word Count: 45,564
Heat Rating: SWEET
[BookStrand Romantic Suspense]
After Vienna’s shocking death, Maggie Benson never thought her world could get any darker. The sheriff determined it was suicide, but Maggie cannot accept that. When her diner is vandalized and her cook is hurt, her world begins whirling out of control. She is plunged into a world of deceit where she is followed and her home broken into.
When Wilson Beaumont shows up, Maggie is immediately drawn to him, but senses he is hiding something that has to do with Vienna. Wilson is searching to find answers about his daughter and thirteen million dollars missing from the Longstreet Bank. If he doesn’t find the money soon, he knows he will be killed.
Wilson and Maggie must find a way to trust each other in order to survive. But after all the murders and lies, is it too late to uncover the secrets that threaten their future together?
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BookStrand
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Silver Lining (MF)
by
Wendy Soliman
Categories: Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
Word Count: 78,190
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Romantic Suspense]
Lauren Miller, jailed for embezzlement, survives her sentence by plotting revenge against the man who put her there. Once released, she’s content to bide her time—until a contact is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect.
Nate Black, an American journalist, offers to help Lauren clear her name by trapping the mastermind behind her crimes in a daring sting operation. Thrown together, Lauren and Nate are drawn toward one another and make passionate love. But still, a vital question remains unanswered, driving a wedge between them.
What happened to the money she stole…
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Incidents at Balboa (MF)
by
Dana Fiduccia
Categories: Contemporary, Science Fiction
Word Count: 70,461
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Sci-Fi Romance]
Incidents at Balboa, a science fiction romance novel, weaves a story about how two people’s lives entangle in a web of unforeseen circumstances that seem coincidental.
Laura Garcia, a thirty-nine-year-old woman, works as a nurse of pediatric oncology. She experiences a significant time loss incident one night while walking alone on the Balboa Pier.
Laura meets Michael Cello, a retired science teacher and writer. He finds her beauty and intelligence captivating, so he starts courting her.
She discovers through Michael’s involvement and interest in her that she has healing powers. Michael persuades her into healing terminally ill children on her hospital ward.
Michael meets Laura’s mother, Victoria, and develops an intuitive feeling that Laura, Victoria, and he interconnect in some mysterious way.
While Michael searches for the truth about his intuition, he and Laura encounter romance, self-doubt, and unexpected outcomes in their adventures together. Find the secret to how Laura's lover, Michael Cello, regains his youth.
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ISBN: 1619265729
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BookStrand
Romance
Gangbusters (MF)
by
Michele Hart
Categories: Science Fiction, Futuristic
Word Count: 122,046
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Futuristic Sci-Fi Romance, angels]
Daniel Tierney and his fellow I-Marshals take down the organizations producing the most dangerous substance in the Alliance. But reporter Faith Vedder turns up at the worst times, including Danny’s near assassination. He’s had enough of her interference and requires her source of information.
Faith won’t tell him anything that compromises her Pulitzer-worthy story, not even under the magic of hot attraction. She doesn’t know she’s surrounded by fallen angels at war. Danny’s not finished making demands. She doesn’t understand until a giant, snorting, winged monster slobbers down her back, threatening to flay her.
The gangbusters can’t delay their mission to shut down gangs until Danny learns the new criminal kingpin of their world is a man who once held Faith’s heart. In the guise of a gangland executioner named Heretic, Danny will destroy him. Even if it destroys Faith.
Angels are watching. Demons are plotting. Faith is the key.
Note: This book contains adult language used as profanity.
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ISBN: 1619265583
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Romance
Too Grand for Words (MF)
by
Natasza Waters
Categories: Contemporary
Word Count: 100,242
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Contemporary Romance]
Steven Porter’s successes are as rugged and powerful as he is. He owns Hollywood, but no woman has ever owned him. During a business trip to Las Vegas, he becomes lost in Moira’s siren eyes. It’s going to take an ocean full of seduction to get her to see his way.
Moira Viterra is a matriarch of the sea. Working with ship captains and gnarly mariners, she won’t let any man command her. But she can’t control the forces that keep her a recluse.
An evening that begins with sizzling glances across a blackjack table ignites the heat in Steven enough to know Poseidon’s daughter is different. Synchronicity and irony join hands to box him into a corner as Steven tries to hide who he really is from Moira.
When Steven finds out Moira’s hiding her own secret, he’s faced with a decision that endangers his life, not just his heart.
Note: This book contains adult language used as profanity.
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ISBN: 1619265575
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Romance
Shalimar (MF)
by
Wendy Soliman
Categories: Contemporary
Word Count: 75,896
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Contemporary Romance]
When Suzie catches her husband with another woman, she flees to Shalimar, the country house where she grew up and still feels most at home. Mark follows her there, desperate to fix their troubled marriage but finds his progress hampered by an eclectic mix of people from The Grange, the neighboring property, who have befriended his wife.
Annabel, a woman without conscience or morals, will do whatever it takes to help her boss, brash, overweight John Greenberg, to acquire The Grange. Motivated by the desire to amass as much money as she can, she even enters into a kinky sexual liaison with Greenberg.
Suzie, distraught at the disintegration of her marriage, is distracted when she uncovers ancient family secrets that place her in deadly danger, testing Mark's determination to keep her safe. Suzie and Annabel's lives entwine in the most unexpected way when they join forces to thwart Annabel's grasping boss...
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ISBN: 1619265567
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BookStrand
Romance
Twist of Fate (MF)
by
Sandy James
Categories: Historical, Time Travel, Western/Cowboys
Word Count: 90,207
Heat Rating: SENSUAL
[BookStrand Western Romance, time travel]
What happens when happily ever after meets reality? Susan and James Williams are drifting apart. After a devastating loss, their lives are thrown into further turmoil when a mysterious stone at a museum hurtles them back to the Old West. Their supernatural experience only intensifies the chasm between them, and when James realizes where they are, in a moment of anger, he pronounces that they were never married.
They go their separate ways, unsure of what this new world holds in store. James settles into a job as bartender. Befriended by local rancher Daniel Miller, Susan soon develops feelings for him. She’s torn between starting a new life in a new time and healing her marriage and returning to the twenty-first century.
Will the miraculous journey back in time help Susan and James reconcile, or has destiny set new roads for them to travel that lead them away from each other?
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ISBN: 1619265192
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Romance
Kiss Me Slowly (MF)
by
Amber Lea Easton
Categories: Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
Word Count: 94,228
Heat Rating: SENSUAL
[BookStrand Romantic Suspense]
Neck-deep in a setup that could have him in jail or dead by Monday, Jonathan Alexander is desperate. It’s Saturday. His only hope is Grace Dupont, the best forensic accountant in Miami. But there’s a glitch with that idea. She is also his ex-girlfriend who would rather watch him drown than throw him a life vest.
Grace enjoys seeing Jonathan squirm. On your knees, boy, she thinks as he pitches for her help. Always a sucker for the dark-haired, blue-eyed boys, she risks her precariously balanced life of secrets to help him.
Trapped in a whirlwind of diamond smuggling and million-dollar money trails, Jonathan and Grace flee to the sea to stall for time as they try to prove his innocence. Romance sizzles beneath Florida Keys sunshine. Both scoff at happy endings. Both doubt justice. Both know each kiss could be their last.
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ISBN: 1619262991
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Romance
Her One-Night Prince (MF)
by
Rebecca J. Clark
Categories: Contemporary
Word Count: 45,314
Heat Rating: SWEET
[BookStrand Contemporary Romance]
Her One-Night Prince is a Cinderella story about a woman’s dream to be something she’s not for just one night at her class reunion.
As all fairy tales go, however, happy endings don’t come easily.
Shy and sheltered Lydia St. Clair is uncomfortable around men, so she advertises for a gay man to be her date and revamp her style. Mitch Gannon answers Lydia’s ad, and he’s perfect for the job—he’s handsome and, even more important, he’s charming.
Unbeknownst to Lydia, Mitch is straight and answered the ad as the unwitting victim of a practical joke. Before he can reveal the truth, Lydia is convinced he’s her fairy godmother, ready to transform her into the belle of the ball. And Mitch, prince that he is, doesn’t have the heart to set her straight.
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ISBN: 1619262983
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A Class Apart (MF)
by
Wendy Soliman
Categories: Contemporary
Word Count: 76,972
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Contemporary Romance]
The only way for Lady Octavia Radleigh’s grandfather to pay off crippling debts is to sell their ancestral home. Octavia vows that Jake Bentley, a self-made financial guru, will never get his hands on Radleigh, and she sets about turning it into an upmarket hotel. All she has to do is persuade Jake to finance the venture.
Jake dislikes everything Octavia stands for, but he's backed into a corner and has no choice but to finance her crazy scheme. When someone sabotages Octavia’s efforts and she turns to Jake for advice, they finally discover release for their pent-up passion in one another’s arms.
Embroiled in a bitter tangle of resentment and paranoia, Jake must race against time to save Octavia from her own folly before Radleigh is lost to them both...
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Romance
Full Exposure (MF)
by
Carla Angela
Categories: Contemporary
Word Count: 23,478
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Contemporary Romance]
When photographer Lake Silva helps her best friend trawl online dating sites in her search for love, she is appalled by some of the pictures men upload. Totally unflattering!
So Lake takes it upon herself to do something about it with a brainstorm for a new business venture—professional online dating photos. Slick, appealing, and sizzling hot...with Lake behind the camera lens! What she doesn’t count on is meeting one male client who stirs up more than just business sense in her.
Hunter Dex is not Lake’s usual customer. He lives in a palatial abode, and he has ocean-blue eyes and a tanned, muscular body.
Despite a photography exhibition of nudes also keeping Lake busy, she can’t help having dirty fantasies about Hunter. But such a gorgeous, rich playboy like him could never be seriously interested in a feisty tomboy like her...could he?
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Rhinestone Cowgirl (MF)
by
Denise Belinda McDonald
Categories: Contemporary, Western/Cowboys
Word Count: 67,360
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Cowboy Romance]
Poppy Dumphy is Beverly Hills born and bred, and she has everything money can buy—except a connection with her father. After his death, she learns why and leaves her posh life to expose a long-kept secret.
In Rowdy, Texas, small-town living suits Cale Hollander to a comfortable T. He runs his ranch, helps his neighbors, and is wary of strangers. The former rodeo bronc buster wants to return to his first love—riding. The last thing he needs is a distraction in the form of a petite blonde.
The pair butts heads at every encounter as intensifying attractions—and mounting suspicions—flourish. Neither is prepared for the other as they fail in their fight with temptation. If they give in, will they both lose all they cherish when the truth comes out? Or can they build a life together better than either ever dreamed of?
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Out of the Past (MF)
by
Terri J. Lynn
Categories: Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
Word Count: 72,005
Heat Rating: SENSUAL
[BookStrand Romantic Suspense]
Amateur genealogist Melissa Wendell inadvertently uncovers a secret from the past, putting her in the crosshairs of an assassin’s rifle.
Detective Mike Rawlins is assigned to the case and hunts the assassin while trying to uncover secrets long buried in her family's past. Her sister seems to sense the evil that lies ahead, and Melissa believes in her sister’s psychic ability, but Mike Rawlins is skeptical of any such claim.
After a second attempt on her life, Melissa leaves Seattle for Boston where she discovers that her grandmother is reaching out from the grave. An unknown assailant follows her there, and soon, she is once again fighting for her life.
For her survival and the love they’ve found together, can Mike and Melissa unravel her long-buried family secrets before a killer finds her again?
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Dangerous Deception (MF)
by
K. R. Bailey
Categories: Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Western/Cowboys
Word Count: 59,143
Heat Rating: STEAMY
[BookStrand Cowboy Romantic Suspense]
After her father’s freak riding accident, Saxon Hunter gives up her dreams of being on the rodeo circuit to rush home only to find her happy ranch life replaced by odd accidents and murder. Deception is everywhere. In her quest to unravel the mysterious clues, she’s plunged into the dangerous world of murder and drugs.
Morgan Michaels, a DEA agent, goes undercover to expose a drug ring. When he meets Saxon, he isn’t prepared for the strong attraction he feels. Things get complicated because evidence indicates Saxon and her family are involved in the case he’s trying to solve.
When Saxon learns that Morgan has deceived her, she’s devastated, but as things heat up, she finds he’s her only chance for survival. The question is can they make their way through all the lies to regain trust and find love?
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