(from USA Today
by Joyce Lamb)
Happy 2014! HEA checked in with our favorite romance authors to find out what's on their TBR list … (Check back tomorrow for even more of authors' picks.) Don't miss parts one, two and three.
TERRI BRISBIN, author of The Highlander's Dangerous Temptation
• The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. This is the final book in her All Souls Trilogy, and I have been waiting for it since the last book in 2012! I resisted reading this series because I'd heard they weren't romances and they were in first-person POV (which I have difficulty reading), but, gosh, I'm glad a local bookseller forced it into my hand! A witch and a vampire travel through time and space AND LOVE to save the people they love and the world they know. P.S. It's a romance!
• Burned by Karen Marie Moning. I tried not to like Karen's Fever series, but she dragged me back with every book including the last one, Iced. Again, first-person POV, not a "romance" (the focus is on saving the world, not the love story), but it all works wonderfully! Can't wait for this next one, which continues the story ... as the teenage protagonist gets into more dangerous situations.
• The Accidental Duchess by Madeline Hunter. I love, love, love Madeline Hunter's historical romances, and she'll be finishing up her Fairbourne Quartet in 2014 with this book. I've watched these two characters in the other books and can't wait to see them in their own story!
JULIE ANN WALKER, author of Born Wild
• House of the Rising Sun by Kristen Painter. If you love urban fantasy, nobody does it better than Painter. And this first book in her new series is guaranteed to thrill!
• One More Night by Mandy Baxter. Baxter is a new star in the romantic suspense constellation. And her debut novel shines so bright I anticipate having to turn down the contrast on my e-reader!
• Ever After by Kate SeRine. I can't wait to get my greedy little hands on this fourth installment in SeRine's Transplanted Tales series. Fairy-tale characters stuck in the real world? Yes, please!
RHODA BAXTER, author of Doctor January
• Impossible Things by Kate Johnson. I love Kate Johnson's writing voice, and her book UnTied Kingdom was wonderful.
• Dear Thing by Julie Cohen. I've been wanting to read this all this year and haven't yet. It's coming out in paperback soon. I WILL read it this year. It sounds amazing.
• Things Fall Apart by Jane Lovering. This is the second in a trilogy. I loved the first book, Vampire State of Mind, so I'm really looking forward to reading the sequel.
I'm also looking forward to the UK Romantic Novelists' Association short story anthology Truly, Madly, Deeply, which is coming out in February. It's a great way to discover new U.K. writers.
WILLA BLAIR, author of Highland Seer
• Blood Reunited by Amber Belldene. Book three in the Blood Vine series and, I ardently hope, not the last!
• The Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley. Her stories have so much depth and texture that I look forward to the next before I've finished the last.
• The Ophelia Prophecy by Sharon Lynn Fisher. I loved her debut book, Ghost Planet. In addition to plenty of heat, Fisher brings well-researched science to her science-fiction romance.
And more: The Raider by Monica McCarty, Do or Die by Suzanne Brockmann, Highland Fire by Tanya Anne Crosby.
ALETHEA KONTIS, author of Hero
• Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen. Garden Spells is one of my favorite books of all time, and Lost Lake is Sarah's first book in four years (since being diagnosed with breast cancer). I cannot WAIT for this tale of a girl who returns to a childhood memory and magically finds things she wasn't looking for. Luckily, it comes out in January, so I don't have to wait long!
• For All Time by Jude Deveraux. Second novel in the Nantucket Brides series, starring descendants of Jude's infamous Montgomery-Taggerts. I will drop absolutely everything the moment this book comes out in July.
SHONA HUSK, author of Lord of the Hunt
• Bitter Spirits (Roaring Twenties No. 1) by Jenn Bennett. A paranormal romance set in the '20s. It sounds like fun!
• One Bite Per Night (Bite Me, Your Grace No. 2) by Brooklyn Ann. I read book one and loved it, so jumped at the chance to beta read book three … now I just need to fill in the gap and read book two.
• Prince of Shadows by Rachel Caine. I love Romeo and Juliet. When I read that this story is about Benvolio, it went straight on my to-buy list.
*Blogger's note: I apologize I though I had posted part one of this. But the USA Today site has not changed since December 31 or even before I think. So I did not even see that there was part two and three. I do not know how many more parts are coming but I will keep checking and hope the site does not show me the same thing.
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