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Subject: Navy SEAL Shane "Scavenger" O'Brian Mission: Seduce and satisfy Lark Sommers! Lark Sommers's dry spell is officially a sex-starved desert. Since taking over her mom's quirky coffee shop in Nowhere, Idaho—putting her own career on permanent hold—Lark's been, well, miserable. But her friends have a plan…one that starts with a superhot guy with a rockin' hard bod. US Navy SEAL Shane O'Brian has no clue he's being set up. All he knows is that Lark does incredible things to his libido. Still, Shane can't quite bring himself to tell her what he does for a living. After all, their risqué business is temporary—no strings, no falling in love. Especially when there's no way this SEAL would ever be tempted into anything more than a sexy little fling… ********************** Learn more (and how to purchase a copy) by visiting Tawny Weber's website:  http://tawnyweber

WIN ME OVER – Nicole Michaels   Hearts and Crafts Series   , Book 2   A Perfect 10   St. Martin's Paperbacks   ISBN: 978-1-250-05816-4   September 2015   Contemporary Romance   Preston, Missouri   Callie Daniels of the popular Callie's Confections bakery spent lots of her early childhood competing in beauty pageants. She loves to dance, and so she took a side job as a dance coach for the local high school cheerleaders. This, added to her shop and work as a partner in a three-woman blog about things creative and domestic, keeps her very busy. Yet she can't say no when the school principle asks her to compete in a dance off with the head football coach, Bennett Clark.   Clark spent two glorious years with the NFL until an accident that seriously injured his left leg and hip ended his career as a football player. It still pains him at times, but he manages to hide that fact. He's been coaching and teaching biology for six years and really cares for his students and the t

A WANTED MAN – Jennifer Morey Cold Case Detectives , Book 1 Harlequin Romantic Suspense #1864 ISBN: 978-0-373-27934-0 September 2015 Romantic Suspense Series Salt Lake City, Utah and Rock Springs, Wyoming – Present Day Penny Darden is spending the weekend with her new boyfriend, Jax Ballard, at his cabin in the Utah mountains and while out walking alone she stumbles across a barn with a white pickup truck hidden in it. Afterwards, Jax seems upset to learn she was outside walking, so she doesn’t tell him about what she found. Then, on the television comes a report about a child who was kidnapped and murdered, with the only clue about the killer being that they drove a white pickup truck. Penny is afraid Jax is the killer, so she leaves and later contacts a man hired by the child’s family to investigate the murder. Kadin Tandy lost his only child to a murderous pedophile and even after he found the killer on his own, he could not save his wife from suicide.

We’re basically all salespeople, in some form or other.  There’s always a pitch to be made – whether it is to sell a product, an idea, a service or a project.  If you want to be successful, you need a compelling value proposition for your “brand” -   to entice potential customers and expand your reach. As authors, we have to be innovators.  We need to figure out how to differentiate ourselves from the competition (which is plentiful!) and capitalize on these distinctions in order to be effective (no easy feat!). Three key questions must be answered in order to establish and solidify our positioning to potential readers. 1.  What do we write? Do you write about topics that are unique?  Trendy?  Exciting?  Dismal?  Newsworthy?  Are there established audiences for these subjects who are interested in consuming different views/perspectives/ideas?  Is the subject matter widely appealing?  Or does the subject have only a small niche group of interested readers?  What set

Title: Asylum Harbor Series: The Salty Dog Series Book One Author: Isla Grey Genre: Contemporary/Suspense Approximately 198 pages Published:  September 16, 2105  Publisher:  Wild Rose Press Trouble is the last thing Devon Brown needs when she leaves the painful memories of her past behind and heads to Shell Island. As the Salty Dog’s new bartender, she finds herself drawn to Kerr, the Shell Island harbormaster. But finding her happily-ever-after is difficult when dealing with an obnoxious bootlegger who supplies the bar with illegal liquor and a jealous coworker. A standoffish loner with damaged emotions, Kerr avoids relationships like the plague. Things change when Devon catches his eye. As a simple flirtation grows serious, the coworker and bootlegger quickly become obstacles to any future Kerr and Devon may have together. As the situation worsens, Devon realizes that even the still waters of Asylum Harbor are no refuge during a storm.

SWITCHBACK – Catherine Anderson Harlequin Intrigue #1587 ISBN: 978-0-373-69854-7 September 2015 Romantic Suspense Seattle, Washington – Present Day Private investigator Bud “Mac” Phearson is summoned by his good friend and mentor, businessman Keith Christiani, to protect Keith’s widowed daughter-in-law and granddaughter. But before Mac can get to the job, Keith is felled by a stroke, and the granddaughter is kidnapped by the crime boss’s henchmen. With Keith in intensive care at the hospital, Mac does intercept the daughter-in-law, Mallory, and attempts to whisk her away. However, someone soon is shooting bullets at them and they’re running for their lives. The crime boss is insistent that he wants a mysterious package that Keith was supposed to deliver to them. In exchange, Mallory’s daughter will be released. Mallory is confused by what is going on around her, but her biggest concern right now is finding her daughter, Emily. She isn’t sure she can trust Mac, but he appears to be a