Fast Forward to Fall

The  calendar says September, the kids are back in school, and the weather forecasters are promising temperatures in the mid-80s next week. Even though officially the first day of fall is still weeks away (September 23), all the signs in my world tell me the season has begun. I’m ready for it. Fall is my favorite season, and after a hot summer that started in May, I’m even more eager than usual for cooler days, football weekends, and lower utility bills. I’m also eager for the books of fall.

I confess that I’ve rushed the season a bit. I’ve already read three September releases and have begun a fourth. I’ve even started Christmas reads with Sherryl Woods’s An O’Brien Family Christmas (already reviewed here), Toni Blake’s Holly Lane (Destiny #4), and Robyn Carr’s Bring Me Home for Christmas (Virgin River #16). Reviews for the latter two are forthcoming. But that means I still have over fifty books that I will be adding to my TBR mountain over the next few months. I’m fudging a bit by including the December 27 releases on my list. Technically these are winter books, but seeing them here makes their release dates seem closer.  I should also add the caveat that this is a list of books from my personal book calendar, mostly books by my auto-buy authors; it is far from a comprehensive list.

SEPTEMBER

Leigh Michaels                  The Wedding Affair 9/1

Jeanne Adams                  Deadly Little Lies 9/6

C.A. Belmond                    A Rather Remarkable Homecoming 9/6

Helen Brenna                    Redemption at Mirabelle (Mirabelle Island #7) 9/6

Christina Dodd                  Revenge at Bella Terra (Scarlet Deception # 2) 9/6

Jo Goodman                     Kissing Comfort 9/6

Ashley March                    Romancing the Countess 9/6

Kate Moore                       To Seduce an Angel (Sons of Sin, Book 3) 9/6

Kay Stockham                  The Sheriff’s Daughter (HSR-North Star #3) 9/6

Rose Lerner                      A Lily Among Thorns  9/15

Kathleen Eagle                 One Brave Cowboy (HSE) 9/20

Barbara Freethy               Garden of Secrets (Angel’s Bay #5) 9/20

Courtney Milan                 Unclaimed (The Turners #3) 9/20

Eileen Dreyer                    Always a Temptress (Drake’s Rakes) 9/27

Jane Graves                     Heartstrings and Diamond Rings 9/27
Lavinia Kent                      What a Duke Wants 9/27
Debbie Macomber            1225 Christmas Tree Lane (Cedar Cove #12) 9/27
Susan Mallery                   Only His (Fool’s Gold #6) 9/27
Anne Mallory                     In Total Surrender (Secrets #3) 9/27
Mariah Stewart                  Hometown Girl (Chesapeake Diaries #4) 9/27
Sherryl Woods                  An O’Brien Family Christmas (Chesapeake Shores #8) 9/27

OCTOBER

Grace Burrowes                Lady Sophia’s Christmas Wish (Windham Sisters #1) 10/1

Suzanne Enoch                A Beginners Guide To Rakes 10/4
Janice Kay Johnson         All That Remains (HSR) 10/4
Jeanie London                  No Groom Like Him (HSR) 10/4
Theresa Romain               Season for Temptation 10/4
Jill Shalvis                         Animal Attraction (Animal #2) 10/4
Kay Stockham                  In the Rancher’s Footsteps (HSR-North Star #4) 10/4
Jodi Thomas et al.            A Texas Christmas 10/4

Elizabeth Hoyt                  Scandalous Desires (Maiden Lane #3) 10/18

Christine Merrill                A Regency Christmas Carol 10/18
Karen Hawkins                 Seduced in Scotland  (Hurst Amulet #3)10/18

Toni Blake                        Holly Lane (Destiny #4) 10/25
Robyn Carr                       Bring Me Home for Christmas (Virgin River #16) 10/25
Cara Elliott                       Too Wicked to Wed (Lords of Midnight #1) 10/25
Kristan Higgins                 Until There Was You         10/25
Brenda Novak                  In Close (Bulletproof #3) 10/25

NOVEMBER

Joanna Bourne                 The Black Hawk (Spymaster #4) 11/1
Grace Burrowes               The Virtuoso (Duke’s Obsession #3) 11/1
Kieran Kramer                  If You Give a Girl a Viscount (Impossible Bachelors #4) 11/1
Sarah Mayberry                All They Need (HSR) 11/1
Nora Roberts                    The Next Always (Inn Boonsboro #1) 11/1
Kay Stockham                  Christmas in Montana (HSR-North Star #5) 11/1
Jodi Thomas                     The Comforts of Home (Harmony #3) 11/1
Vicki Lewis Thompson      Holiday Hideout (anthology w/h Shalvis & Kenner)
Karen White                      The Strangers on Montagu Street (Tradd Street #3) 11/1

Nicola Cornick                   Desired (Scandalous Women #5) 11/15
Carla Kelly*                       Coming Home for Christmas (three connected stories) 11/15

Sabrina Jeffries                 To Wed a Wild Lord (hellions of Halstead Hall #4) 11/22
Kasey Michaels                 A Midsummer Night’s Sin 11/22
Jill Shalvis                         Head Over Heels (Lucky Harbor #3) 11/22

Louisa Edwards                Some Like It Hot (Recipe for Love #5) 11/29
 

DECEMBER

Jo Goodman                     A Place Called Home 12/6

Robyn Carr                       Hidden Summit (Virgin River #17) 12/27
Eloisa James                    The Duke Is Mine 12/27
Emily March                     Lover’s Leap (Eternity Springs #4)12/27
Teresa Medeiros              The Pleasure of Your Kiss 12/27
Raeanne Thayne              Woodrose Mountain (Hope’s Crossing #2) 12/27

What fall books are you most eagerly anticipating?

 
*Not new but great news nonetheless: Marian’s Christmas Wish (1989) by Carla Kelly is available this month in print and as an ebook. An ebook of four of Kelly’s Christmas stories ("The Christmas Ornament," "Object of Charity," "Make a Joyful Noise,” and "The Three Kings”) will be available later.