Category: Romance

Title: High Country

Author: Jennie Hansen

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: January 5, 2009

ISBN: 978-1598115895

Size: 288 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romance

A terrible car accident left Laura fatherless, injured, and at a loss for many memories of her life before the accident. But when she and her cousin Bruce are going through their Aunt Alice’s papers after her death, Bruce finds a certificate that will change Laura’s life forever: a marriage certificate. With her name on it. The doctors told her she wouldn’t be able to remember a lot of things, but how could she forget getting married?

Laura is shocked ever further when she finds out that she is heir to a fortune and her father’s ranch, High Country. As she discovers the secrets about her past that Aunt Alice had kept so well hidden from her, Laura is determined to get back what is rightfully hers. But trying to regain the beautiful house and land from a stubborn cowboy. Paul “Mac” Burgoyne, who claims to be her husband, is more than she bargained for.

In this gripping novel, best-selling author Jennie Hansen presents a fresh set of realistic, entertaining characters who learn the importance of forgiveness, faith, and love in the face of discord and misunderstanding.

Title: Previously Engaged

Author: Elodia Strain

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: January 1, 2009

ISBN: 978-1599552514

Size: 306 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical Romance

Series: The Icing on the Cake

She has the wedding. Now all she needs is the groom…

Annabelle Pleasanton has just been given the chance of a lifetime: A $50,000 “Dream Wedding.” The only problem? She’s not technically, 100 percent, all-the-way engaged.

Yes, her best friend has seen the ring, and her boyfriend has been dropping all kinds of hints, but something seems to be keeping him from popping the question.

In this hilarious companion to The Icing on the Cake Annabelle navigates the crazy, often chaotic twists of life and love and learns some very important lessons along the way about what really matters most.

Title: The Time of Aspen Falls

Author: Marcia Lynn McClure

Publisher: Distractions Inc

Release Date: December 31, 2008

ISBN: 978-0982192139

Size: 272 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romance

Aspen Falls was happy. Her life was good. Blessed with a wonderful family and a loyal best friend, Aspen did know a measure of contentment. Still, to Aspen it seemed something was missing, something hovering just beyond her reach, something entirely satisfying that would ensure her happiness. Yet, she couldn’t consciously determine what the “something” was.

And so, Aspen sailed through life—not quite perfectly content perhaps, but grateful for her measure of contentment. Grateful that is, until he appeared—the man in the park, the stranger who jogged past the bench where Aspen sat during her lunch break each day.

As handsome as a dream, and twice as alluring, the man epitomized the absolute stereotypical “real man”—and Aspen’s measure of contentment vanished! Would Aspen Falls reclaim the comfortable contentment she once knew? Or would the handsome real-man-stranger linger in her mind like a sweet, tricky venom—poisoning all hope of Aspen’s ever finding true happiness with any other man?

Title: Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind

Author: Heidi Ashworth

Publisher: Avalon

Release Date: December 24, 2008

ISBN: 978-0803499263

Size: 264 pages, 5,5×8.5, hardback

Genre: Historical Romance

When the dowager duchess of Marcross insists he accompany her niece, Ginny, into the country for the day to execute a special task, Sir Anthony is appalled, to say the least. Ginny, who thinks little of the fashionable Sir Anthony, is as eager to be done with the chore as he, but before they arrive at their destination they are stranded by highwaymen and launched into adventure.

Forced into each other’s company, Ginny begins to sense the passionate nature beneath Sir Anthony’s mask of ennui, while his exasperation with the forthright Ginny turns into admiration of her wit and charm. Then beautiful Lucinda Barrington and Lord Avery, a poet, come onto the scene, sparking Ginny’s imagination and revealing a way to unmask the true man behind Sir Anthony’s frivolous facade. Meanwhile, the dowager duchess has plans of her own for this pair, and her special task turns into a battle of words, wills, and wit.

Title: The Stranger She Married

Author: Donna Hatch

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Date: November 2008

ISBN: 978-1601543349

Size: 360 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Romance

When her parents and only brother die within weeks of each other, Alicia and her younger sister are left in the hands of an uncle who has brought them all to financial and social ruin. Desperate to save her family from debtor’s prison, Alicia vows to marry the first wealthy man to propose. She meets the dashing Lord Amesbury, and her heart whispers that this is the man she is destined to love, but his tainted past may forever stand in their way. Her choices in potential husbands narrow to either a scarred cripple with the heart of a poet, or a handsome rake with a deadly secret. Cole Amesbury is tormented by his own ghosts, and believes he is beyond redemption, yet he cannot deny his attraction for the girl whose genuine goodness touches the heart he’d thought long dead. He fears the scars in his soul cut so deeply that he may never be able to offer Alicia a love that is true. When yet another bizarre mishap threatens her life, Alicia suspects the seemingly unrelated accidents that have plagued her loved ones are actually a killer’s attempt to exterminate every member of her family. Despite the threat looming over her, learning to love the stranger she married may pose the greatest danger to her heart.

Title: Where Hearts Prosper

Author: Suzanne V. Reese

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: December 1, 2008

ISBN: 978-1599551920

Size: 262 pages, softcover

Genre: Romance

Carmen Anderson has spent her entire life avoiding the place she grew up: the town tiny of Prosper, Arizona. When she makes the impulsive decision to move back with her rebellious teenage daughter Paige, she has no idea that the worst storm in the town’s history is just days away. Carmen is in Chicago on business when Paige is stranded in Prosper by flooding, stuck with a town full of people she hardly knows, but despises anyway.

Jeopardizing both her career and a proposal of marriage, Carmen sets out on a desperate cross-country chase to be reunited with her daughter before the girl unwittingly uncovers a painful secret buried deep in Carmen’s past. A secret that has kept her from embracing her family, God, devoted friends, and the precious gift of true love.

Title: Love Me

Author: Marcia Lynn McClure

Publisher: Distractions Inc

Release Date: November 8, 2008

ISBN: 978-0982192122

Size: 248 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Romance

She had always loved him…forever it seemed she had loved him. Yet, when so many others loved him, too—what hope did she have of owning his love in return?

Jacey Whittaker couldn’t remember a time when she hadn’t loved Scott Pendleton, the boy next door. She couldn’t remember a time when Scott hadn’t been in her life, in her heart. Yet, Scott was every other girl’s dream, too. How could Jacey possibly hope to win such a prize—the attention, the affections, the very heart of such a sought after young man?

Yet, win him she did! He became the bliss of her youthful heart—at least for a time. Still, some dreams live fulfilled and some are lost. Loss changes the very soul of a being. Jacey wondered if her soul would ever rebound. Certainly, she went on, lived a happy life, if not so full and perfectly happy a life as she once lived. Yet, she feared she would never recover—never get over Scott Pendleton, her first love. Until the day a man walked into her apartment and into her heart. Would this man be the one to heal her broken heart? Would this man be her one true love?

Title: Seeking Persephone

Author: Sarah M. Eden

Publisher: Create Space

Release Date: November 7, 2008

ISBN: 978-1440454295

Size: 246 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Romance

The Duke of Kielder has more influence than Parliament, higher social standing than the Royal Family. No gentleman dares face him on the dueling field, nor risks testing his infamous temper. But His Grace is in need of a wife. Combine his fearsome reputation with a terribly scarred countenance and finding a lady willing to accept his hand becomes all-but impossible. When the Duke manages to secure a bride through a bit of trickery and an obscene amount of money, he is certain his problems are behind him. Except his purchased bride proves to be nothing like he expected. What is a man like the Duke to do with a bride who is gentle, loving and absolutely impossible to live without?

Title: Taking Chances

Author: Shannon Guymon

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: October, 2008

ISBN: 978-1-59955-205-7

Size: 224 pages, 6×9 softcover

Genre: Romance

Meet Maggie Tierney, a lighthearted, kind, free spirit who has a lot to be happy about: at 24, she is independent, successful, a wealthy artist, and she’s just inherited a home in beautiful Alpine, Utah, the place where her mother, Lisa, grew up. However, her excitement is colored by the reality that Maggie has never been to Alpine, and that this home was left to her by her estranged great-grandmother, a woman Maggie never met. As Maggie makes the move from St. George to Alpine, she is haunted by her mother’s past: a childhood filled with the misery and despair of childhood sexual abuse. However, she is determined to make amends with the relatives she’s never met and help heal her mom’s childhood wounds.

Armed with Propels, Doritos, and her favorite easel, Maggie dives into Alpine life, ready to make it her home. Despite being 24 and only having had one serious boyfriend in her life, Maggie quickly attracts the attention of Luke Petersen, a man dealing with the death of his fiancé but in need of a friend, and maybe more . . .

Between battling Luke’s jealous admirers and quelling the gossip always present in any small town, Maggie has to muster all of her courage and black belt skills in Jujitsu to come to terms with her mother’s past, overcome her own fears, and jump into a relationship with unknown but exciting prospects.

Title: Dusty Britches

Author: Marcia Lynn McClure

Publisher: Distractions Inc

Release Date: October 20, 2008

ISBN: 978-0982192108

Size: 312 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romance

Dusty’s heart panged a twinge when she saw the bull whip strapped to the saddle of one of the horses tied to the corral fence. “Why today?” she wondered. Why was her memory tarrying on that young cowhand from five years ago?

“Well…now,” a deep, masculine voice said from behind her, “if it ain’t Miss Dusty Britches!”

Dusty felt the color drain from her face, felt the blood seem to drain from the rest of her body and puddle in her feet. She felt dizzy and nauseated all at once. There was only one person on the whole of the earth who ever called her Dusty Britches, and that was the cowboy who gave her the nickname in the first place.

Dusty slowly turned around to see standing before her a man whose eyes were those belonging to a boy she’d once known—a boy who had grown into a man.

Angelina Hunter was seriously minded—and it was a good thing. Her father’s ranch needed a woman who could endure the strenuous work of ranch life. Since her mother’s death, Angelina had been that woman. She had no time for frivolity; no time for a less severe side of life. Not when there was so much to be done—hired hands to feed, a widower father to care for and an often ridiculously light-hearted younger sister to worry about.

No. Angelina Hunter had no time for the things most young women her age enjoyed. And yet, Angelina had not always been so hardened. There had been a time when she boasted a fun, flirtatious nature even more delightful than her sister Becca’s—a time when her imagination soared with adventurous, romantic dreams. But that all ended years before at the hand of one man.

Her heart turned to stone, safely becoming void of any emotion save impatience and indifference. Until the day her dreams returned, the day that the very maker of her broken heart rode back into her life. As the dust settled from the cattle drive that brought him back, would Angelina’s heart be softened? Would she learn to hope again? Would her long-lost dreams become a blessed reality?

Title: The Highwayman of Tanglewood

Author: Marcia Lynn McClure

Publisher: Distractions, Inc. (?)

Release Date: September 2008

ISBN:

Size: Softcover

Genre: Romance

Dressed in black and astride his mighty steed, the brave, heroic, and dashing rogue Highwayman of Tanglewood stole chambermaid Faris Shayhan’s heart as easily as he stole her kiss. Yet, the Highwayman of Tanglewood was encircled in mystery—mystery as thick and as secretive as time itself. Could Faris truly own the heart of a man so entirely enveloped in twilight shadows and dangerous secrets?

[I saw this in a Seagull Book store and it’s in their catalog, but the only place I could find it online was here.]

Title: The Sound of Rain

Author: Anita Stansfield

Publisher: Covenant Communications, Inc.

Release Date: 2008

ISBN: 978-1598116887

Size: 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romance

Friendships and relationships formed and forged through the fiery furnace of experience have left Jayson Wolfe wiser, sadder, and anxious to embrace new hopes and dreams. In the life he’s reconstructing, his music is essential and failure is unimaginable. But does life ever go as planned?

In this first volume of her new series, acclaimed LDS storyteller Anita Stansfield reaches out to her readers’ hearts, minds, and spirits as she explores the joy and grief of relationships. The Sound of Rain is compelling and intense-a deeply rooted love story with heart-stopping consequences.