EPPIE FINALIST, Contemporary Romance

LOVING BEN by Jan Janssen
Genre: Romance Contemporary
E/Digital Book Formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-082-5
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-083-2

What is it they say about the best laid plans? Katherine MacCrae is about to find out that you just can’t plan love in LOVING BEN. She’s forced to face her demons, one in the shape of a very irritating wildlife photographer and ex-photojournalist named Ben Forrester, the man who left her high and dry six months earlier.

Ben Forrester has his life completely under control and he doesn’t need Kat MacCrae messing it up. He’s not happy when he’s forced to share space with the annoying journalist with a caustic tongue. Especially when said journalist has already thrown him out of her life once. She won’t get a second chance!

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EPPIE WINNER, Contemporary Romance

BROKEN PROMISES by Nancy Ann Rose
Genre: Romance Contemporary

Rennie Wakefield is an unwitting pawn in a deadly game of politics between her unscrupulous husband and domineering brother. Disillusioned, but determined to break the vicious cycle, she takes her daughter and flees toward an uncertain future—and into the arms of a small-town sheriff.

Chase Taggert is not a man who takes ‘no’ for an answer. He knows what he wants, and he wants Rennie—and he’ll get her, even if he has to save her from herself to do it. Even as she resists his appeal, Rennie finds herself drawn to Chase’s old-world charm. But before she can ever learn to live, she must first learn to brave her fears and confront her past.

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EPPIE FINALIST, Contemporary Romance

THE HIRED HAND by Melissa Schroeder
Genre: Torrid Romance Contemporary
E/Digital Book Formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-024-5
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-343-7
Rating: Erotic Romance - Explicit

Stranded in a Dallas hotel room with nothing but a red spandex dress, stiletto heels and thigh highs, with directions on where to meet a gigolo, was not how Marlow Smith planned on spending her thirtieth birthday. But when her best friend leaves her knowing Marlow is so anal she'll dress up and go fire the man, she does exactly that. Except the firing. She finds him sitting at the end of the bar and somehow ends up back in her hotel room with him. After a night filled with the best sex of her life, she leaves, thinking never to see the man again, and returns to her boring, stable life.

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EPPIE FINALIST, Historical Romance

WILD HONEY by Carolyn Lampman
Genre: Romance Historical
E/Digital Book Formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-084-9
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-085-6

Her whole life Alaina Ellinson has longed for adventure, but nothing is less likely in her quiet little home town. Then, a long forgotten photograph surfaces and changes everything. Reeling from the shock that the very fabric of her life is a lie, Alaina sets off to find a piece of herself she’s never even known existed.

When Jared Brady promises to escort Alaina to his sister in Wyoming, he has no idea what he is letting himself in for. From the moment the two meet, the sparks fly. But when circumstances strand the two of them in the mountains running from an army of outlaws, they must put their differences aside and depend on each other to survive.

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EPPIE FINALIST, Thriller

DREAMS OF APRIL TEN by Stephen LaFevers
Genre: Medical Thriller
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-225-6
E/Digital Book Formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-226-3

Fiery deaths of children and adults have been part of his nightmares since a childhood he cannot remember. Now, through hypnosis and physical investigation, Hartley James is coming to learn the horrible truth behind his forgotten youth and those horrific dreams. Guided by another kind of dreams, Hart travels from the Missouri Ozarks to the Alaskan wilderness in search of answers. But the deaths are no longer limited to dreams. A scientist in Hawaii, a newspaper woman in Missouri, a cook, a waiter, and a teenaged girl all burst into flames and die as Hart tries to find the truth. Others seek another truth and it is a race to see who can find the answers first, and who will survive the fantastic revelations. A middle-aged college professor with a secret past, a journalist with a strange illness, a genetic engineer, Hart’s wife Holly, and others put their lives on the line because of the DREAMS OF APRIL TEN.

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