Officially, the first day of summer is June 21, but all the signs of summer are present and accounted for at my house. It’s a humid 80 degrees with afternoon thunderstorms forecast, the grands are out of school, we’ve already had picnics and cookouts, Braves baseball accounts for a steady stream of conversation, and the summer reading program at the local library is in full swing. Oh, yes, it’s definitely summer here.
My reading calendar is just one more piece of evidence that summer has begun. I have almost one hundred books on my TBR list for June, July, and August. I’ve already read nineteen of them. (See the bolded titles on the list below.) I can tell you that you have some wonderful books coming to bookstores near you this summer. I’m reading Carolina Girl by Virginia Kantra today, and I have another ten books from the list waiting on my Kindle. (See titles marked with an asterisk.) I’ve already reviewed a few of these books. You will see the rest here At Just Janga, at The Romance Dish, or at GoodReads over the summer months.
I’m particularly excited about new books from Susan Crandall (Whistling Past the Graveyard, a coming-of-age
story with a nine-year-old narrator set in 1960s Mississippi, set for
release on July 2) and Pamela Morsi
(Love Overdue, a romance with a sedate Kansas librarian who is longing to free
her Inner Vixen, set for release on August 27). Crandall and Morsi are both
authors whose voices I love and whose books always leave me longing for the
next one.
Historical romance is my favorite subgenre, and
I am eagerly anticipating the summer offerings, especially Manda
Collins’s Wicked Widows series which debuts on July 30 with
Why Dukes Say I Do and Anna Campbell’s
new Sons of Sin novella (
Days of Rakes and Roses) on July 2 and
novel (
A Rake's Midnight Kiss) on August 27. I am also enthusiastically looking forward to the Billionaire Brothers series by Lily Everett (aka Louisa Edwards). This contemporary series, consisting of three enovellas (
The
Firefly Café,
The Summer Cottage,
and
Island Road) releasing on July 2,
9, and 16, is set on Sanctuary Island and serves as a prequel to the novel
Sanctuary Island (July 30), described as
a place “where
broken hearts come to heal—and where every lost soul will find a home.”
Every book on this
list promises to be a great summer read.
JUNE
3
Stewart, Mariah
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Swept Away (novella)
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4
Andrews, Mary Kay
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Ladies Night
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Burrowes, Grace
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Ethan
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Carlisle, Kate
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A Cookbook Conspiracy*
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Dark, Emmie
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Just for Today
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Gray, Juliana
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How to Tame Your Duke
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Jacobs, Holly
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A Walk Down the Aisle
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Kantra, Virginia
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Carolina Girl*
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Kaye, Robin
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You're The One
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Marlowe, Mia
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Romanced by a Rake
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Pickering, Kathleen
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The Father of Her Son
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Talley, Liz
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His Uptown Girl
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Thomas, Jodi
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Can't Stop Believing
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White, Karen
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The Time Between
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18
Collins, Manda
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The Perks of Being a Beauty
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Delinsky, Barbara
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Sweet Salt Air (HB)
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Goodnight, Linda
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Baby in His Arms
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Jeffries, Sabrina
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What the Duke Desires
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Wilde, Lori
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One True Love
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25
Beaton, M. C.
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Hiss and Hers (pb of 2012 release)
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Brogan, Tracy
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Hold on My Heart*
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Carr, Robyn
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The Newcomer
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Grant, Celia
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A Woman Entangled
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Griffin. Laura
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Exposed
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Haymore, Jennifer
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The Duchess Hunt
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Long, Julie Anne
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It Happened One Midnight
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Mallery, Susan
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Two of a Kind
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Monroe, Mary Alice
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The Summer Girls
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Pappano, Marilyn
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A Hero to Come Home To
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Rice, Luanne
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Little Night
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Richards, Emilie
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Somewhere Between Luck and Trust
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Stone, Jillian
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The Miss Education of
Dr. Exeter
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Terry, Candis
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Anything But Sweet
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Thayne, RaeAnne
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Willowleaf Lane
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Wilde, Lori
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All Out of Love
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JULY
1
DeStefano, Anna
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A Sweetbrook Family
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2
Krotow, Geri
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Navy Orders
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O'Brien, Kathleen
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Betting on the Cowboy
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Brooke, Christina
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London's Last True
Scoundrel
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Burrowes, Grace
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Beckman
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Campbell, Anna
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Days of Rakes and
Roses
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Crandall, Susan
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Whistling Past the
Graveyard
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Everett, Lily
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The Firefly Café (enovella)
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Essex, Elizabeth
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Scandal in the Night
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Frank, Dorothea Benton
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The Last Original Wife
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Mulry, Megan
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If the Shoe Fits
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Rice, Luanne
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The Lemon Orchard
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Robinson, Maggie
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In the Arms of the Heiress
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9
Everett, Lily
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The Summer Cottage (enovella)
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Naigle, Nancy
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Wedding Cakes and Big
Mistakes*
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St. Claire, Roxanne
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Don't You Wish (YA)
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15
Foley, Gaelen
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My Notorious Gentleman
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16
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Everett, Lily
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Island Road (enovella)
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23
DeStefano, Anna
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Three Days on Mimosa
Lane
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30
Andersen, Susan
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Some Like It Hot
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Ashe, Katharine
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How to Marry a
Highlander
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Collins, Manda
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Why Dukes Say I Do
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Cornick, Nicola
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The Lady and the Laird*
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Everett, Lily
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Sanctuary Island
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Jordan, Sophie
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How to Lose a Bride in
One Night*
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Linden, Caroline
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Love and Other
Scandals*
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Mallery, Susan
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Three Little Words
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Novak, Brenda
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Home to Whiskey Creek
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Ranney, Karen
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The Devil and Clan
Sinclair*
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Robinson. Maggie
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Lady Anne's Lover*
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AUGUST
1
Kelly, Carla
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The Double Cross
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6
Andrews, Beth
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What Happens Between
Friends
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Altman, Kathy
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Staying at Joe's*
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Beverley, Jo
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Seduction in Silk
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Burrowes, Grace
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Once Upon a Tartan
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Drake, Laura
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Her Road Home
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George, Lily
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Healing the Soldier's
Heart
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Johnson, Janice Kay
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From This Day On
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Lee, Jade
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What the Bride Wore
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Quinn, Tara Taylor
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Second Time's the
Charm
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Ross, JoAnn
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Castaway Cove
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Scott, Regina
|
The Courting Campaign*
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Warner, Kaki
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Behind His Blue Eyes
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Willig, Lauren
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The Passion of the
Purple Plumeria
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13
London, Julia
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Homecoming Ranch
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Macomber, Debbie
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Rose Harbor in Bloom
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20
Allen, Louise
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Rumors: Scandal Comes
to Wimpole Hall
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Ashley, Jennifer
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The Untamed MacKenzie
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Greene, Jennifer
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The Bonus Mom (HSE)
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Stuart, Anne
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Never Kiss a Rake
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27
Ashe, Katharine
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I Married the Duke
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The Arrangement
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Mary Balogh
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Campbell, Anna
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A Rake's Midnight Kiss
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Carr, Robyn
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The Hero
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Castle, Jayne
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Deception Cove
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Chapman, Janet
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For the Love of Magic
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Kramer, Kieran
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Say Yes to the Duke
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Macnamara, Ashlyn
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A Most Devilish Rogue
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Morsi, Pamela
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Love Overdue
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Neville, Miranda
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The Ruin of a Rogue
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Putney, Mary Jo
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Sometimes a Rogue
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Will you be reading this summer? At the beach?
At the mountains? At home with the airconditioner on low?
What books are you most eagerly anticipaing?
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8 comments:
I'll probably go visit my cousin in Michigan, so I'll definitely be bringing my books with me. I remember reading a couple of Susan Crandall's romantic suspenses.
I have probably 30 or 40 books pre ordered on my ereader. Some of the ones I am most looking forward to include Ruthie Knox' release next week,Julie Ann Long's new book, and Susanna Frasers, along with the new Jo Beverly and Mary Jo Putney.
And I was just blown away by how good Tessa Dare's new book was. To my mind its the best of her Spindle Cove series.
Everywhere I go I carry an mp3 player loaded with audio books. You never know when the next storm will force you to take shelter in England!
There are just so many books and authors that I'm trying to catch up with. My next romance read will be Sophie Kinsella's 'Wedding Night' and on the fantasy front I'm all set for Robin Hobb's 'City of Dragons'.
Waiting in the wings I have Jean Brashear's 'Texas Heroe's' collection and I'm still hoping to start Manda Collins books which are now available in the UK.
Janga, I'm relying on you to skim La crème de la crème from that huge list of books so that I can be transported to those dreamy spires of excellence without all the leg work!
The DH and I have already escaped for a few weekends to our cottage. He likes to play in the water and I like to sit on the shore and read! So I'm very excited about all the new releases coming my way.
I'm really trying to reign in my book spending, though. I'm going to have to be pickier than I've been in the past. It's kind of funny too cause I'm unconsciously setting up book buying habits - some authors I'll by in ebook format and others I want the paperback book.
I'm always excited about catching up with all the series I'm following - Robyn Carr, RaeAnne Thayne, Virginia Kantra, Mary Balogh, Tessa Dare, and Brenda Novak are just some of the authors that have me totally hooked! LOL
That Billionaire Brothers series by Lily Everett looks good, Janga. Since they're enovellas it will probably be easy on the pocketbook too!
Jane, I don't read a lot of romantic suspense, but I love Susan Crandall's. She's one of the authors whose style and voice I like so much that I am willing to follow her into any genre. Well, probably not vampires, but most anything else.
Deborah, we share many favorite authors. I too loved Tessa Dare's Any Duchess Will Do, and I've already read and reviewed the new JAL, which is wonderful. And my review of the new MJP will be posted at The Romance Dish nearer pub date. I'm not a fan of kidnapping plots, but I loved the book, kidnapping and all.
Q, I'm delighted that you are finally able to read Manda's books. They are definitely winners--and I'd say that even if she were not a friend. I'm interested in what you think of Brashear's Texas Heroes.
Irish, the Everett novellas are $1.99, so all three will be less than one print mass market pb. A great price! I try to be disciplined in my book buying too, but it's not easy. I'd be lost if I didn't get so many as ARCs to review. Of course, I end up buying a lot of those in one format or the other anyway. :)
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