Showing posts with label Ruthie Knox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruthie Knox. Show all posts

7/16/2014

Day Three: Last of the 2014 RITA finalists

Congratulations to RITA finalists in the Paranormal, Novella, Romantic Suspense, and Short Contemporary Romance categories!  

As many of you know, it is quite an honor to be a Romance Writers of America RITA finalist. We encourage all GLIAS readers to peruse the list of nominated authors and titles. See anything below you would love to read? Leave the title and your comment, along with your email contact info for a chance to win the RITA finalist book of your choice!


Paranormal Romance



The Burning Sky
by Sherry Thomas
HarperCollins Publishers, Balzer & Bray
Donna Bray, editor


Caged Warrior
by Lindsey Piper
Pocket Books
Lauren McKenna, editor



Demon Hunting in a Dive Bar

by Lexi George
Kensington Publishing Corp., Brava
Alicia Condon


The Devil’s Heart
by Cathy Maxwell
HarperCollins Publishers, Avon Books
Lucia Macro, editor


Diamond Dust
by Vivian Arend
Samhain Publishing
Anne Scott, editor




The Firebird

by Susanna Kearsley
Sourcebooks, Landmark
Deb Werksman, editor


Heart of Obsidian
by Nalini Singh
Berkley Publishing Group, Berkley Sensation
Cindy Hwang, editor


His Clockwork Canary
by Beth Ciotta
Signet
Jhanteigh Kupihea, editor



Immortally Ever After

by Angie Fox
St. Martin’s Press
Monique Patterson, editor


Shadowdance
by Kristen Callihan
Grand Central Publishing, Forever
Alex Logan, editor


Skies of Gold: The Ether Chronicles
by Zoë Archer
HarperCollins Publishers, Avon Impulse
Amanda Bergeron, editor


Teardrop
by Lauren Kate
Random House Group, Delacorte
Wendy Loggia, editor


Witch Bound
by Eleri Stone
Carina Press
Gina Bernal, editor

Romance Novella


The Bridesmaid
by Julia London
Sourcebooks, Casablanca
Deb Werksman, editor

“Defending Truth”
by Shannon McNear
in A Pioneer Christmas
Barbour Publishing
Becky Germany, editor


How to Marry a Highlander
by Katharine Ashe
HarperCollins Publishers, Avon Impulse
Lucia Macro, editor



How to Misbehave

by Ruthie Knox
Random House Group, Loveswept
Sue Grimshaw, editor

“Imagine Me and You”
by Maisey Yates
in Animal Attraction
Harlequin, HQN
Margo Lipschultz, editor


Mine Under the Mistletoe
by Kat Latham
Carina Press
Angela James, editor


Take Me, Cowboy
by Jane Porter
Tule Publishing, Montana Born Books
Tessa Shapcott, editor


Take What You Want
by Jeanette Grey
Samhain Publishing
Jennifer Miller, editor

“Too Fast to Fall”
by Victoria Dahl
in Be Mine
Harlequin, HQN
Tara Parsons, editor

Romantic Suspense



Justice for Sara
by Erica Spindler
St. Martin’s Press
Jennifer Weiss, editor


The Killing Game
by Toni Anderson
Self-published



Off the Edge

by Carolyn Crane
Self-published


Thrill Ride
by Julie Ann Walker
Sourcebooks, Casablanca
Leah Hultenschmidt, editor


Short Contemporary Romance




A Conflict of Interest
by Barbara Dunlop
Harlequin, Desire
Charles Griemsman, editor


Free Fall
by Karen Foley
Harlequin, Blaze
Brenda Chin, editor



Her Accidental Boyfriend

by Robin Bielman
Entangled Publishing, Bliss
Stacy Abrams and Wendy Chen, editors


Her Secret, His Baby
by Tanya Michaels
Harlequin, American Romance
Johanna Raisanen, editor


A Royal without Rules
by Caitlin Crews
Harlequin, Presents
Megan Haslam, editor



Why Resist a Rebel?

by Leah Ashton
Harlequin KISS
Meg Lewis, editor


Commenters: See anything above you'd love to read? Leave the title, your comment, along with your email contact info for a chance to win the RITA finalist book of your choice! 

***Note: Offer void where prohibited. Prizes will be mailed to North America  addresses only. If an Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) is available, the author may utilize that option for International participants. Odds of winning vary due to the number of entrants.

7/19/2013

Celebrating Contemporary Single Title Romances

The Get Lost in a Story crew sends our CONGRATULATIONS to the

ABOUT LAST NIGHT
Ruthie Knox

Cath Talarico knows a mistake when she makes it, and God knows she’s made her share. So many, in fact, that this Chicago girl knows London is her last, best shot at starting over. But bad habits are hard to break, and soon Cath finds herself back where she has vowed never to go . . . in the bed of a man who is all kinds of wrong: too rich, too classy, too uptight for a free-spirited troublemaker like her.
Random House Group, Loveswept
Sue Grimshaw, editor
Nev Chamberlain feels trapped and miserable in his family’s banking empire. But beneath his pinstripes is an artist and bohemian struggling to break free and lose control. Mary Catherine — even her name turns him on — with her tattoos, her secrets, and her gamine, sex-starved body, unleashes all kinds of fantasies.
When blue blood mixes with bad blood, can a couple that is definitely wrong for each other ever be perfectly right? And with a little luck and a lot of love, can they make last night 
last a lifetime?
Ruthie is also a finalist in the Romance Novella category.
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BAREFOOT IN THE SAND
Roxanne St. Claire

When a hurricane roars through Lacey Armstrong’s home on the coast of Barefoot Bay, she decides all that’s left in the rubble is opportunity. A new hotel is just what Mimosa Key needs, and Lacey and her teenage daughter are due for a fresh start. And nothing, especially not a hot, younger architect, is going to distract Lacey from finally making her dreams a reality.

Grand Central Publishing, Forever
Amy Pierpont, editor
Love has already cost Clay Walker everything. And if he's going to have any chance of picking up the pieces of his life, he needs the job as Lacey Armstrong's architect. What's not in the plans is falling for the headstrong beauty. Her vision of the future is more appealing than anything he could have ever drafted for himself. Will Clay's designs on Lacey's heart be more than she can handle, or will she trust him to build something that will last forever?

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FOREVER AND A DAY
Jill Shalvis

LOVE CAN HAPPEN IN A HEARTBEAT
Grace never thought she’d be starting her life over from scratch. Losing everything has landed her in Lucky Harbor, working as a dog walker for overwhelmed ER doctor Josh Scott. But the day his nanny fails to show up, Grace goes from caring for Josh’s lovable mutt to caring for his rambunctious son. Soon Grace is playing house with the sexy single dad…
Grand Central Publishing, Forever
Alex Logan, editor
With so many people depending on him, Josh has no time for anything outside of his clinic and family-until Grace arrives in town. Now this brainy blonde is turning his life inside out and giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “good bedside manner.” Josh and Grace don’t know if what they have can last. But in a town like Lucky Harbor, a lifetime of love starts with just one day…

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LUCKY IN LOVE
Jill Shalvis
Grand Central Publishing, Forever
Alex Logan, editor

Mallory Quinn has had enough of playing it safe. As a nurse and devoted daughter, she takes care of everyone but herself. And as the local good girl, she’s expected to date Mr. Right. But for once, she’d like to take a risk on Mr. Wrong. And who could be more wrong than Ty Garrison? The mysterious new guy in town has made it clear that he’s only passing through, which suits Mallory just fine. Besides, his lean, hard body and sexy smile will give her plenty to remember once he’s gone…
For the first time in his life, Ty can’t bear to leave. Helping this sexy seductress-in-training walk on the wild side is making him desire things he shouldn't including leaving the military for good. As their just-for-fun fling becomes something more, Mallory and Ty wonder if they could really be this lucky in love. After all…anything can happen in a town called Lucky Harbor.

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MELT INTO YOU
Roni Loren
Book 2
Her first love has returned, and he's brought a friend...
After running away from home and the boy who broke her heart, Evan Kennedy has kick-started the perfect new life with her celebrity fiancé. So what if said fiancé prefers guys? She knew the deal. And with her ticket to The Ranch, an exclusive resort where any fantasy can be satisfied, she knows she can find someone to fulfill her less-than-traditional desires on the side.
Penguin Group USA, Berkley Heat
Kate Seaver, editor
She just never expected that man to be Jace Austin, her old heart-breaker—all grown up, hard-bodied, and holding out a collar. She knows it’s probably a world-class bad idea—especially since Jace has brought along his buddy Andre, who’s every bit as irresistible. But if they can stick to the no-strings rules, so can she.
Too bad Jace has never been so good with rules. Evan is convinced “forever” is a word used only in greeting cards, but Jace and Andre have one last fantasy of hers left to fulfill. It’s time to go big or go home. And neither man has ever been a fan of going home.

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SUGAR SPRINGS
Kim Law
Can she have the family she always wanted…
Lee Ann London once had big plans…scholarship, college, love. Then she found herself raising her deceased sister’s twin girls when their father disappeared. Now, with her beautiful girls, a community that depends on her, and her photography studio finally taking off, Lee Ann may not have the life she’d imagined, but it’s definitely the one she wants. Until Cody, her bad-boy ex, returns to Sugar Springs…
Amazon Publishing, Montlake Romance
Kelli Martin, editor

Or are some hurts too deep to heal?
Cody’s childhood put a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas. Bouncing around the foster care system, he was always the one to leave before anyone left him first. Then he found a place he wanted to stick: with Lee Ann, the best thing that ever happened to him. Only, he hurt her. Bad. He’s back now, and determined to earn her forgiveness…and maybe win back her love while he’s at it.

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THE WAY BACK HOME
Barbara Freethy
Ex-Marine Gabe Ryder has lost a lot in his life. His mother died when he was a toddler. His father succumbed to alcoholism. And a week before their last day of service, a horrific firefight takes the life of his best friend and brother-in-arms, Rob Hayden. Now Gabe must fulfill his friend’s dying wish by helping Rob’s twin sister, Alicia.
Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books
Micki Nuding, editor
Alicia has been reeling since her brother’s death. She’s lost a part of herself that she isn’t sure she can get back. On top of that, her eight-year-old son is longing for a father, who she thinks she’s found in her boyfriend Keith. Then Gabe shows up, moving into Rob’s house, helping with the family rafting business, and looking into her love life, and Alicia is resentful.
But when Alicia’s son and his best friend run away, Alicia and Gabe realize they must face their deepest fears and work together to bring them back, before the river rises.

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ZOE'S MUSTER
Barbara Hannay
Three women … two families … one secret …
When Zoe, restless black sheep of the Porter family, discovers that her biological father is a North Queensland cattleman, Peter Fairburn, her deep desire to meet him takes her from inner city Brisbane to a job as a stockcamp cook.

Zoe’s mother, Claire, is wrestling with guilt and shock over Zoe’s discovery. She swears Zoe to secrecy, fearing that the truth could ruin the career of her high profile politician husband. When she is forced to confront her past, Claire also reassesses her marriage.

Penguin Group Australia, Michael Joseph Books
Belinda Byrne, editor
Virginia Fairburn is happily married to Peter, but she’s always lived with the shadow of the other woman her husband loved and lost.

On the muster at Mullinjim, Zoe meets brooding cattleman Mac McKinnon, who knows from painful experience that city girls can’t cope in the bush. Every instinct tells Mac that Zoe is hiding something. As the pressure to reveal her mother’s secret builds, Zoe fears she must confide in him or burst. 

The truth has the potential to destroy two families. Or can it clear the way for new beginnings?

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Congratulations to all the nominees for the RITA® in the
CONTEMPORARY SINGLE TITLE ROMANCE category!
~ ~ ~
JOIN US tomorrow as RITA® week 
continues with the BEST FIRST BOOK category. 
Don’t forget to FOLLOW us on Twitter #GetLostStories or LIKE us on Facebook.

MULTIPLE CHANCES through Rafflecopter
north America
*a digital copy of Ruthie Knox's ABOUT LAST NIGHT
*autographed copies of Roxanne St. Claire's BAREFOOT IN THE SAND 
& BAREFOOT IN THE RAIN
*an autographed copy of Roni Loren's MELT INTO YOU
*an autographed or digital copy of Barbara Freethy's ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS
*a digital copy of Barbara Hannay's ZOE'S MUSTER 

International giveaway through Rafflecopter (separate)
*an autographed advance reader's copy (ARC) of Kim Law's September release 
SWEET NOTHINGS 

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7/13/2013

Celebrating Romance Novella

The Get Lost in a Story crew sends our CONGRATULATIONS to the

BREATHLESS 
Sophie Jordan
For Az, it's supposed to be a fun summer vacation with her family. Nothing complicated. Just a quick trip to test the waters as she prepares for a year on her own. That all changes when she rescues a drowning girl and meets Tate—the most gorgeous human boy she's ever seen. 
HarperCollins, HarperTeen Impulse
Kari Sutherland, editor

Tate throws her heart, her plans, and her life into upheaval, but the closer she gets to him, the harder it is to hide the secret of what she is.With no hope for a future together, the last thing that can ever happen . . . is love.

You'll meet the heroine of BREATHLESS on the first page of FIRELIGHT -- she is the best friend to the heroine of the Firelight trilogy. "When HarperTeen asked if I would write a novella to accompany the trilogy, Az was the first character to pop in my head. She was such a fan favorite and I really felt she deserved a romance of her own. " ~Sophie

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THE DUCHESS OF LOVE 
Sally MacKenzie

The day was as hot as the pond was inviting. It's not as if anyone in Little Huffington was going to happen upon a secluded vale on the Duke of Greycliffe's lands. And Venus Collingswood didn't want to get her shift all wet. It was the perfect setting in which to plan her lovely bookworm of a sister's betrothal to the mysterious new duke arriving seven days hence. If only she had a suitable accomplice . . .


Kensington Publishing Corp., Zebra
Audrey LaFehr, editor
Andrew Valentine, Duke of Greycliffe, never thought arriving at his own household a week early would cause so much trouble. The housekeeper thinks he's his own cousin. Actually, the chance to not be the duke for a while is a pleasant opportunity indeed. It might even help him interrogate the delectable little nymph he's discovered swimming in his pond-if he can manage to get a word in edgewise . . . 

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ROOM AT THE INN
in NAUGHTY & NICE
Ruthie Knox

Carson Vance couldn’t wait to get out of Potter Falls, but now that he’s back to spend Christmas with his ailing father, he must face all the people he left behind . . . like Julie Long, whose heart he broke once upon a time.
Random House Group, Loveswept
Sue Grimshaw, editor

RUTHIE is also a finalist in the Contemporary Single Title category.


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SEDUCED BY A PIRATE
Eloisa James


HarperCollins, Avon Impulse
Carrie Feron, editor

Sir Griffin Barry leapt out of the bedchamber window at age seventeen after a very disappointing wedding night, drank a bit too much at the pub...and woke to find that he'd joined the crew of a pirate ship! Years later, he's become one of the most feared pirates on the high seas, piloting the Flying Poppy, a ship he named after the wife whom he fondly (if vaguely) remembers.

What happens when a pirate decides to come home to his wife...if she is his wife, given that the marriage was never consummated? And what happens when that pirate strolls through his front door and is met by...

Well, that's a surprise!

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SLEEPING WITH A BEAUTY
in ONCE UPON A VALENTINE
Leslie Kelly

Harlequin, Blaze
Brenda Chin, editor



He sought a sleeping beauty
Historian Ashlynn Scott is seeking the fabled castle of Sleeping Beauty. But with just one kiss, she finds herself tangled up—and tangled in the sheets!—with a rogue adventurer. She might never want to wake up!




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THE VALENTINE'S CURSE
in BE MY TEXAS VALENTINE 
Jodi Thomas

Out on these rugged plains, love never comes easy. And four daring ladies will do whatever it takes to capture the hearts of four irresistibly sweet-talking Texans...


Kensington Publishing Corp., Zebra
Peter Senftleben, editor
When a quiet foreman comes to the aid of a mystery lady, they'll find that this perfect starlit night is made for courtin'...

A determined heiress gambles high to reclaim the rancher she's never stopped wanting...

When a spirited lady and a go-getter mayor compete for their town's future, it's two dreams for a lifetime...

And to attract a lonely doctor's attention, a shy young woman needs courage - and two unlikely matchmakers...

Previously on GLIAS
Congratulations to all the nominees for the RITA® in the
Romance Novella category!
~ ~ ~
JOIN US tomorrow as RITA® week 
continues with the PARANORMAL ROMANCE category. 
Don’t forget to FOLLOW us on Twitter #GetLostStories or LIKE us on Facebook.

MULTIPLE CHANCES through Rafflecopter

(north america)
*autographed copy of FIRELIGHT by Sophie Jordan
*autographed copy of BEDDING LORD NED by Sally MacKenzie
*an digital copy of Ruthie Knox's NAUGHTY & NICE.  

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