A RITA award finalist for Best Contemporary Romance from Romance Writers of America. Barbara Samuel's first women's fiction, writing as Ruth Wind. LOOKING FOR THE PAST… Ellie Connor is a biographer with a special talent for piecing together fragments of the past. Her latest project, though, promises to be her most challenging–and personal. Not only is she researching the life of a blues singer who disappeared mysteriously forty years ago, but Ellie is also trying to find the truth about the parents she never knew. The love child of a restless woman who died young and an anonymous father, Ellie has little to go on but a faded postcard her mother sent from a small East Texas town–the hometown of her latest subject. COULD MEAN FINDING HER FUTURE It is there that Ellie meets Blue Reynard, a man with deep roots and wide connections who may help her find answers. With a piercing gaze and cool grin, Blue is as sultry and seductive as the Southern night air. Beneath his charming surface, however, lies a soul damaged by loss. Despite her better judgment, Ellie finds herself irresistibly drawn to Blue’s passion–and his pain. But Ellie’s been lured by sweet talk and hot kisses before. How can she possibly stay with blue when every instinct tells her to run?

In The Midnight Rain

Romance

Samuel, Barbara

Wind, Ruth

Contemporary

Barbara Samuel

EPIC A GOING THE DISTANCE NOVEL Every decision is an ending ... and a beginning Broke and close to broken-hearted, Jess Donovan doesn't know what to do with her life. She's lost her job and she's discovered that the man she loves, the charismatic and elusive Tyler Smith, has a troubled past that's left him damaged...perhaps beyond repair. Unable to trust him or her feelings, when her long-lost father invites her to visit him a continent away, she leaps at the chance to get some perspective. In dazzling New Zealand, her fortunes seem to be turning way, way up. She lands a lucrative gig in a tourism commercial, cast opposite Kaleb Te Anga, a guy who's Tyler's opposite in every way. When things heat up between them on-set, fake kisses turning to hot real kisses, Jess finds herself torn. Is this just a holiday hook-up, or something deeper? How can she feel so much for two different people, and how will she ever choose between them? If she gets that chance ... because her indecisive heart might mean she'll lose them both. EPIC is the third installment in the Going the Distance series. Read Random and Stoked, the first two books. Coming in Winter: BRILLIANT

Epic (Going the Distance)

O'Neal, Lark

New Adult & College

Brilliant (Going the Distance)

INTENSE  A GOING THE DISTANCE NOVEL “Over the past year, my life has been full of moments that took my breath away, moments when I was so filled with surprise that it’s me living this life that it feels as if I stumbled into a fairy tale.” Jess Donovan has come a long way in a year, from waiting tables and eating ramen noodles at every meal, to a dizzying new life with more choices and more trouble than she ever imagined. After a tumultuous spring that left her heart shredded, Jess stepped away from both Tyler and Kaleb to live on her own terms. Now, as her life is about to take one more huge turn with the opening of the movie Torches, Jess finds herself squarely between Tyler and Kaleb once again. The chemistry is off the charts with her sexy co-star Kaleb, but he’s macho and stubborn. Artist Tyler has shown a devotion that’s unshakable, but his temper is volcanic and he still doesn’t see Jess as his equal. Which means Jess has to grapple with a painful question—how does a woman choose the right man for her? (INTENSE is book 5 of the Going the Distance Series)

Intense (Going the Distance)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

BLAZE Episode Three of The OtherLand Chronicles A Novella of 100 pages. The Queen Returns . . . As the Others struggle to find balance among themselves and the people of their new home, Alia struggles to return to the life as she knew it before her masquerade as the mysterious and missing Mikhaila. When Alia’s masquerade was uncovered, she and Bartholomew were forced apart, and he endured a brutal punishment. There is one saving grace—Alia’s gift for the GodSong might provide a clue for the Others to settle more fully into their new life, and an Elder will continue to teach her the sacred weapon. As school begins, however, Alia discovers that Mikhaila has returned—her lover dead—and she is to be Bound in a horrifying and barbaric way. Alia again provides an answer, this time for the Rogues, who kidnap her with intent to save their Queen. As war breaks out, Alia is forced to take a role she never dreamed of, even as Bartholomew is thrust into even greater responsibility. How can they ever hope to find happiness together?

Blaze (The OtherLand Chronicles) (Volume 3)

Lark O'Neal

The OtherLand Chronicles Collection One contains episodes 1, 2, &amp; 3 of the OtherLand Chronicles. 17-year-old Alia, a street-smart recent Brooklynite, is disdainful of the warnings to stay in after dark in her new suburban neighborhood. What could possibly be lurking in the tidy greenways between the upscale houses? And yet, it’s hard to ignore that something odd is going on here. Strangers keep mistaking her for a girl named Mikhaila, a girl who has mysteriously disappeared. The bodies of four other girls have been found, untouched, but undeniably dead. And at twilight, she meets the enigmatic and disconcerting Bartholomew, a boy who has secrets and burdens he cannot share. The animals are acting oddly, the suburbs are crawling with danger, and everything seems to come back to Bartholomew and a group of recent immigrants with unusual customs, including being forbidden to mix romantically with the locals. There is an undeniable, powerful—and forbidden—attraction between Alia and Bartholomew, prompted by music, woven into a kiss. The pair find themselves becoming more and more entwined, and the situation among the Others is growing more unstable. Although she knows she’s being drawn too far into the world of the Others, she cannot resist the lure of the GodSong, or Bartholomew, even when she might lose everything—including her life.

The OtherLand Chronicles: Collection One: episodes 1 - 3 (The OtherLand Chronicles Collections) (Volume 1)

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