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THE SIEGE: A NOVEL Award Winning Author Marilyn Baron Genre: Contemporary, Women's Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Mystery, Historical Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Publication Date: January 8, 2018 A journey of self-discovery leads to love and passion in the search for a family’s hidden past... Artist Theia Constas receives a tour of Italy from her grandmother as a college graduation present. Before she departs, her ya-ya’s deathbed revelation of a cache of WW II photographs and love letters extends Theia’s itinerary to Crete in search of her unknown grandfather, a promising artist who studied under Chagall but didn’t survive the war. Wade Bingham, an actuary who always follows the rules and calculates the odds, finds himself alone on his honeymoon trip, wondering why his fiancée jilted him at the last minute. In the wrong place at the wrong time when their hotel in Florence, Italy, is besieged by terrorists, the two strangers find themselves thrust together in ...

NEW BOOK RELEASE!! In Marilyn Baron's The Alibi, a cover-up could cost heroine Merritt Saxe her life. THE ALIBI Marilyn Baron Genre:  Romantic Suspense, Women's Fiction, Crime Fiction, Cozy Mystery Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc. Publication Date: September 13, 2017 Add to Goodreads Merritt Saxe, newly hired public relations specialist with the Florida prison system, answers an urgent plea from their division’s director, Willard Ware Baintree. Following his orders, she finds him in the apartment of his mistress, his bloody T-shirt and the mistress’s dead body convincing her the criminal justice superstar is himself a criminal. The director claims he didn’t kill the woman and coerces Merritt into being his alibi. Meanwhile, as the director pulls her farther into his web of lies, Merritt breaks with her longstanding boyfriend and begins a steamy relationship with hunky attorney Israel Goodspeed, whose brother works for the director. Yet how can she trust...

HAPPY RELEASE DAY!! From award-winning author Marilyn Baron THE ALIBI Marilyn Baron Genre:  Romantic Suspense, Women's Fiction, Crime Fiction, Cozy Mystery Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc. Publication Date: September 13, 2017 Add to Goodreads In Marilyn Baron's The Alibi, a cover-up could cost heroine Merritt Saxe her life. Merritt Saxe, newly hired public relations specialist with the Florida prison system, answers an urgent plea from their division’s director, Willard Ware Baintree. Following his orders, she finds him in the apartment of his mistress, his bloody T-shirt and the mistress’s dead body convincing her the criminal justice superstar is himself a criminal. The director claims he didn’t kill the woman and coerces Merritt into being his alibi. Meanwhile, as the director pulls her farther into his web of lies, Merritt breaks with her longstanding boyfriend and begins a steamy relationship with hunky attorney Israel Goodspeed, whose brother ...

NEW BOOK RELEASE From Award Winning Author Margaret Ann Spence Can a father's hidden life threaten a daughter's chance at love? LIPSTICK ON THE STRAWBERRY Margaret Ann Spence Genre:  Romance, Women's Fiction Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Publication Date: July 5, 2017 Add to Goodreads Estranged from her English family, Camilla Fetherwell now lives in the United States and owns a successful catering business. Returning home for her father's funeral, she reunites with her first love, Billy, whom she hasn't seen since her father broke up their teenage romance. Billy seems eager to resume their love affair. But after one blissful night together, things take a turn. Camilla suspects her father may have led a secret life, and when Billy reveals something he, too, has discovered, her apprehension grows. Billy holds her heart, but their relationship might be tainted by what her father hid. A reunion seems impossible. Her life feels as splattered a...

While searching for Mr. Right, Sarah found something completely different. SEARCHING FOR SARAH Julieann Dove Series: The Sarah Series # 1 Genre:  Women's Fiction Publication Date: April 27, 2017 Add to Goodreads Sarah Keller is convinced that her Mr. Right is stuck in traffic…in another country…on another planet. ‘Thirty-one and still single’ isn’t how she wants to be introduced by her dad. That’s why she’s on five dating websites, posing as anything from an avid gardener to a crazed thrill seeker. Sam Turner is a single dad, workaholic, who owns his own company. Long-term relationships have never worked out for him. That’s why he needs a nanny. When a mutual friend suggests Sarah take the job temporarily, everything changes for them both. Sarah begins falling for the man who meets almost none of her online criteria. And when strange things start happening—things that jeopardize the safety of Sarah, Sam is the last person she would imagine is hiding somethin...