A Bundle of Joy

HATCHER, ROBIN LEE

A BUNDLE OF JOY

Alicia Harris says she's happily married and expecting a baby—but only the last part is true. She can't bear to disappoint her grandfather by telling him she's two months away from single motherhood. Then Grandpa Roger drops in unexpectedly to spend the holidays with Alicia and her husband, and Alicia needs to find a fill-in—fast. Childhood friend Joe Palmero fits the bill, and is willing to play along. Still, the longer they spend playing their parts, the closer Alicia and Joe come to discovering what love, faith and marriage truly mean.

REALLY ENJOYABLE READ. HATCHER CREATES ROMANTIC TENSION RIGHT FROM THE START.

Gingham Mountain

CONNEALY, MARY

GINGHAM MOUNTAIN

A rancher runs head-on into the new school marm, who believes he's made slave labor out of eight orphaned children.

Grant Cooper crowds too many orphans into his rickety house, just like Hannah Cartwright's cruel father. Grant's family of orphans have been mistreated too many times by judgmental school teachers. Now the new schoolmarm is the same except she's so pretty and she isn't really bad to his children, it's Grant she can't stand.

FUNNY AND WITTY AND SO MUCH FUN TO READ. THE ONE-LINERS ARE INCREDIBLE!

A Passion Most Pure

LESSMAN, JULIE

A PASSION MOST PURE

She's found the love of her life.

Unfortunately, he loves her sister.

As World War I rages across the Atlantic in 1916, a smaller war is brewing in Boston. Faith O'Connor finds herself drawn to an Irish rogue who is anything but right for her. Collin McGuire is brash, cocky, and from the wrong side of the tracks, not to mention forbidden by her father. And then there's the small matter that he is secretly courting her younger sister. But when Collin's affections shift, it threatens to tear her proper Boston family apart.

Book 1 of the Daughters of Boston series, A Passion Most Pure will carry your heart from the sophisticated streets of Boston to the green hills of Ireland as men go off to war and women long for their return. Full of passion, romance, rivalry, and betrayal, it will captivate you from the first page.

I FOUND THIS A REALLY EMOTIONAL READ. I WAS EXHAUSTED WHEN I FINISHED IT! EPIC NOVEL -- INTRICATE PLOT. I HAD SOME PROBLEMS WARMING UP TO COLLIN BECAUSE OF THE PLAY BY PLAY OF HIS DEBAUCHED LIFE BUT LESSMAN WON ME OVER IN THE END.

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?

KANTOR, MELISSA

IF I HAVE A WICKED STEPMOTHER, WHERE'S MY PRINCE?

Modern day Cinderella story with a twist. Lucy Norton's father has remarried and she's moved from sunny California to Long Island. While her dad continues to work in California and flies in for weekends, Lucy is stuck ajdusting to a new stepmom and twin stepsisters. Add in a new school and zero friends you'll know why she's depressed....Until a haphazard basketball comment in the cafeteria snags the attention of the most popular guy in school and the basketball star! Suddenly Lucy 's life takes a turn for the better. She's one of the popular kids, has two new bffs and is dating her Prince Charming...or is he?

WRITTEN IN FIRST PERSON, A LIGHT, FLUFFY READ. SOME LANGUAGE.

Wings

Pike, Aprilynne

Wings

Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful -- too beautiful for words.

Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings.

In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever.

INNOVATIVE. BEWITCHING. STRONG HEROINE. ALLUDES TO A SEQUEL.

Fit To Be Tied

HATCHER, ROBIN LEE

FIT TO BE TIED

Cleo Arlington dresses like a cowboy, is fearless and fun-loving and can ride, rope, and wrangle a horse as well as any man. In 1916, however, those talents aren't what most young women aspire to. but Cleo isn't most women. Twenty-nine years old and single, Cleo loves life on her father's Idaho ranch. Still, she hopes someday to marry and have children.

Enter Sherwood Statham, an English aristocrat whose father has sentenced him to a year of work in America to "straighten him out". Sherwood, who expected a desk job at a posh spa, isn't happy to be stuck on an Idaho ranch. And he has no idea how to handle Cleo, who's been challenged with transforming this uptight playboy into a down-home cowboy.

Just about everything either of them says or does leaves the other, well, fit to be tied. And though Cleo believes God's plan for her includes a husband, it couldn't possibly be Sherwood Statham, could it?

BRILLIANT WRITER. THE DYNAMICS BETWEEN SHERWOOD AND CLEO ARE INCREDIBLE. THE PLOT, THE PACING, EVERYTHING IS SO WELL THOUGHT OUT. I CAN'T WAIT TO READ MORE OF HER BOOKS.

Cowgirl at Heart

LYNXWILER, CHRISTINE

COWGIRL AT HEART

Elyse McCord always plays it safe -- a fact she blames on being the biological daughter of a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Even in the security of her adoptive family, the McCords, the timid dog whisperer keeps her guard up with strangers. But when she discovers a dog being horribly mistreated, shy Elyse transforms into a mighty warrior and charges into a perilous situation, not only risking her life, but also her heart.

Reporter Andrew Stone has been fearless since the day his wife was shot and killed three years ago. He has one mission -- use his Texas Ranger upbringing to find her murdere and clear his own name of any involvement. When he sees a beautiful brunette in the hands of a pistol-wielding maniac, he's forced to abandon his covert surveillance and go to the rescue. The danger surrounding Andrew doesn't scare him at all, but the awakening of his dormant heart terrifies him.

When painful pasts collide, the explosion is deafening. Can Andrew and Elyse pick up the pieces and go forward together? Or will they forever live with haunting memories, unable to forgive, unable to love?

LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE THE MCCORD FAMILY. LOVE ANDREW AND ELYSE. THE DOG WHISPERER ANGLE. THIS VIES UP THERE WITH DEE HENDERSON FOR ME.