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Hot New Romance Novels | November 2019

Need some hot new romance reads to keep you warm as the temperature drops? Look no further than these sexy new romance novels. Our list includes bestselling authors Kelly Jamieson, Addison Cain, L.P. Dover, Jay S. Wilder, CD Reiss, and L.J. Shen. Grab your next favorite love story and enjoy!

Win Big

by Kelly Jamieson

Release Date: November 19, 2019

The third book in the Wynn Hockey series by Kelly Jamieson... Everly is the only daughter in the Wynn Family. In a family of hockey heroes, she never shared the ice with her brothers or got the approval they did from their father. And that was before the scandal that ruined her life at sixteen. Now she has moved on and built a successful career. The last thing she needs is another hockey player. In particular one like Wyatt Bell.

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Cathedral

by Addison Cain

Release Date: November 18, 2019

The first book in the new Cradle of Darkness series by Addison Cain... I had to sell my soul to win her. First, it was to her devil of a father. Then to the true devil himself. The price exacted nothing less than eternal fealty. I would relinquish this a thousand times if I could possess the dark Princess' love. She may hate me, but I will love her forever.

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Dangerous Game

by L.P. Dover

Release Date: November 19, 2019

A crossover novel between L.P. Dover's bestselling Armed & Dangerous and Circle of Justice series... My family was on top for years. Ruthless, respected, and feared. But when my father died, everything changed. When I took over the Corsino empire, enemies tried to take over my city. They thought I would be weak, but they have no nothing about me.

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Single Dad Two Times

by Jay S. Wilder

Release Date: November 10, 2019

I like to work hard and play harder. But when it comes to my twin boys, I'd do anything to keep them happy. My best friend Russ is no different with his little boy. We're both single dads and we have something else in common... we like to share one woman. No one has captured our hearts in a long time, then Amy walked into our lives.

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Iron Crowne

by CD Reiss

Release Date: November 15, 2019

I detest Byron Crowne. He is a charming liar and a gorgeous monster but I can not resist him. I didn't know I had these kinds of desires. I want him to fight me. After our one night together the sheets weren't the only thing we shred that night. Now the stakes are higher than ever.

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In the Unlikely Event

by L.J. Shen

Release Date: November 17, 2019

It was just a one night stand in a foreign land. Neither of us could deny the explosive chemistry. We signed a contract on the back of a napkin that said if we did ever meet again, we would drop everything and be together. Now eight years later he is here in New York. Now he is America's music obsession. An intangible Irish poet who brings record executives to their knees.

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Interview with Michael Lister, author of Blood and Sand

What can you tell us about your new release, Blood and Sand?

From the moment I heard about the Madeleine McCann case I knew I was going to write a novel about it. I wasn’t sure how exactly it would inform my new novel. I just knew it would.
Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British toddler, went missing on the evening of May 3, 2007 during a family holiday trip at the seaside resort of Praia de Luz in Portugal. When she vanished, Madeleine was alone in a condo with her two-year-old twin siblings while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, and their friends, ate at an outdoor resort restaurant approximately one hundred and eighty feet away.
Blood and Sand doesn’t deal directly with Madeleine’s case. In fact, you could read it and not know it was the inspiration. But once readers know that it is I think they’ll find it fascinating exploring how it is.
In Blood and Sand, three-year-old Magdalene Dacosta vanishes on the night of her parents’ Winter Solstice party and is never seen again. But how did this happen? The home was locked up securely and security cameras show no one entering or leaving the residence. John Jordan must figure out how this seemingly impossible crime was committed and who is capable of such wickedness before it's too late for another innocent.
Madeleine McCann’s case, which has garnered international attention, has been turned into a Netflix documentary titled “The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann,” which takes a detailed look at the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann, her family, and the twists and turns of the ongoing investigation.
I was riveted by the Netflix documentary about the case. Then when I began to write Blood and Sand I did additional research into the case and watched much of the documentary again.
This isn’t the first time that true crime has informed and inspired my fiction. My time as a student in Atlanta led me to research and write about the Atlanta Child Murders. My connection to Tallahassee led me to research and write about Ted Bundy. my previous career as a prison chaplain with the Florida Department of Corrections gave me many real-life crime stories to explore. And more recently I have studied and then explored in my fiction the cases of JonBenét Ramsey, Maura Murray, Have Min Lee, and Columbine.
My goal as a novelist is to entertain and inspire, to explore what it means to be human. With every word I’m attempting to tell the truth and true crime seems to help in that pursuit.

What or who inspired you to become an author?

Many, many books and people and events in my life inspired me to become a novelist, but perhaps none more than Robert B. Parker. I started reading his Spenser series as a teenager and fell in love with crime fiction. Reading Parker at just the right time captured my imagination and led me into an exploration of just what crime fiction can do.

What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?

Just limiting myself to novels off the top of my head:

Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird
Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstacy
And a tie between Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?

I would choose for my first guest Michael Connelly. He’s a great writer and a great human being, and we’ve had some good conversations over the years. He’d be a great writer to start with. And there would be so many things I could ask him, but I would probably begin with how he has sustained such a high quality of writing and storytelling over such a long period of time in his Harry Bosch series.

What's your favorite thing about writing?

Just the doing of it. I love to write. I love the process of creating a world and peopling it. And I’m always fascinated by what happens and what I discover along the way. I’m a discovery writer who writes into the dark, is I’m always excited to see what happens next.

What is a typical day like for you?

I write first thing in the morning when I wake up, and then again in the afternoon following a break for lunch and responding to emails, etc. My evenings are filled with family and friends, playing basketball and guitar, reading, and watching movies or limited series crime television.

What scene in Blood and Sand was your favorite to write?

I enjoyed writing them all, but I’m particularly fond of the opening scene between John Jordan and his daughter at the beach.

Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?

So very many, actually. A few that are particularly important to me are:

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” Henry James

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall
begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” Ralph
Waldo Emerson

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” Henry David Thoreau

Michael Lister is the author of the new book Blood and Sand.

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Interview with Kelly Jamieson, author of Win Big

What can you tell us about your new release, Win Big?

WIN BIG is the next Wynn Hockey book. The Wynn family, who are like royalty in the hockey world - three generations of hockey players, coaches and team owners. And just like royalty, you don't just marry one of the Wynns—you marry the family. As one of the youngest Wynn generation says, "No wonder we're all single." With power, fame and money comes dysfunction, including theft, lawsuits, revenge, infidelity (maybe!), a trophy wife (or is she…) and betrayal. But also, loyalty, friendship, bromance, teamwork and love. Also…hot hockey players! This book is Everly Wynn's story. For me, she's a super relatable character and I love how Wyatt Bell loosens her up.

What or who inspired you to become an author?

I've been a writer my whole life, and I've been a voracious romance reader since I was a teenager. I admired Jayne Ann Krentz and Nora Roberts, of course. I read their books and followed their careers and I wanted to do that too.

What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?

This is hard because I read so much. The Anne of Green Gables books certainly inspired me and stayed with me. Also the Harry Potter books, which fill me with so much admiration for the storytelling.

Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?

I would have all my hockey romance author friends on and we would just talk and it would be hilarious! (We are pretty funny LOL)

What's your favorite thing about writing?

I love creating a different world, and meeting these new people and falling in love with them.

What is a typical day like for you?

I recently became a full time author (yay!) so I'm still finding my routine. I still set my alarm, read the paper, have a cup of coffee, then I hit my computer to deal with emails and social media. I try to write in one hour sessions. taking breaks to play with my new puppy or take her for a walk, or eat haha. In the evening if I sit down to watch a hockey game or TV show, I still feel guilty that I'm not working. I need to give myself permission to work only an 8 or 10 hour say, after years of working a full time day job AND writing.

What scene in Win Big was your favorite to write?

Another hard question because I loved writing this whole book! But it was super fun writing the scene where Everly and Wyatt go out on a date and after a nice dinner they get in some trouble. 🙂

Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?

I wrote a book called Dancing in the Rain, the title of which comes from a saying that's something like, Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain. I try to remember that when things get tough.

Kelly Jamieson is the author of the new book Win Big.

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Interview with Vincent Panettiere, Author of A Woman to Blame

What can you tell us about your new release, A Woman to Blame?

The idea for A Woman to Blame came from an article in the New York Tmes sports page many years ago. It evolved, if that is an apt description, into an unproduced film script. Eventually, the script was reconstituted as a novel.

What or who inspired you to become an author?

My father encouraged and inspired me to be a writer. That I became a novelist I only have myself to blame.

What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?

I've read too many books to have a top five or fifty. But Winnie the Pooh has stayed with me since childhood.

Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?

I'd invite writers of sci-fi and horror books to the talk show. As both genres are foreign to me and I'd want to know what makes them tick.

What's your favorite thing about writing?

My favorite thing about writing is having written. The blank page is a cruel mistress.

What is a typical day like for you?

I don't have a typical day. It's the unusual day that produces both joy and progress.

What scene in A Woman to Blame was your favorite to write?

My favorite scene in A Woman to blame is when Portia confronts her father as they try to pick out a casket for Ariel (spoiler alert).

Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?

My motto is do unto others and hope they don't do unto me.

Vincent Panettiere is the author of the new book A Woman to Blame.

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Interview with Jay S. Wilder, Author of Single Dad Two Times

What can you tell us about your new release, Single Dad Two Times?

I'm really excited about this new release, one of my signature MFM menage romance stories. This one is an emotional yet flirty romance about Amy, a smart, driven college graduate turned nanny, and single dads Russ and Archer, who work hard running a farm security and supply business while they raise their three little boys, Reid, Abe, and Axel.

What or who inspired you to become an author?

I fell into writing back in high school. At the time I'd scribble my creative and off the wall thoughts into the margins of my notebooks, giving more attention to my imagination than whichever teacher was standing at the front of the classroom. Years later, I had an idea for a romance novel, and I wrote and published it independently. I haven't looked back since.

What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?

That's a really hard question, as I enjoy reading so much! But, if I had to pick only 5, I'd go with 1) Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, 2) Deepak Chopra's Seven Spiritual Laws, 3) Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, 4) Nicholas Sparks' Safe Haven, and 5) Everything Danielle Steel has ever published 🙂

Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?

I'd ask Sylvia Day what keeps her inspired to create such compelling, emotionally raw characters.

What's your favorite thing about writing?

I really enjoy seeing characters come to life in my head, then weaving a story around their flaws, and seeing them grow and evolve beyond what I originally envisioned. They tend to have a mind of their own, and they surprise me sometimes!

What is a typical day like for you?

I'm not a full-time writer, so my day still mostly involves working and spending time with the day to day family routines. But my favorite days are those where I can squeeze in a couple of hours to pull away and write my new favorite characters.

What scene in Single Dad Two Times was your favorite to write?

There's a Halloween scene in the epilogue that was a blast to write. It's where Amy gives her new family some big, exciting news. She uses her costume to get the message across, but I won't spoil it here. Readers can check it out when they grab Single Dad Times Two 🙂

Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?

Carpe Diem. I'm all about making the best of every day, moment by moment, and taking the good with the bad and everything in between.

Jay S. Wilder is the author of the new book Single Dad Two Times.

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Interview with Will Willingham, Author of Adjustments

What can you tell us about your new release, Adjustments?

It’s a humorous and thoughtful story of a claim adjuster named Will Phillips, who works in a small town on the South Dakota plains. The story unfolds through his encounters with colorful characters and the deepening relationships with his landlady, a customer, and a neighbor. Overall, it explores how friendship changes us, and we change it, in unexpected ways.

But each time someone reads the story and talks to me about it, I find that they unearth more of the undercurrents that run below the surface: themes like identity, manhood secrets, the past.

Depending on one’s own frame of reference, there are themes that will jump off the page while those same themes will go unnoticed by another reader. For instance, one reviewer asked why the book was not being marketed as LGBTQ lit, while another didn’t see that at all and noted it was simply a story about a life. (Spoiler: there is no overt queer component in this story, but some will find a resonance all the same.)

You could also understand it as a story of poetry and literature, music, or the unique job of adjusting. In the end, it’s an exploration of the things that hold us back, and the unexpected ways we can move forward with a little help from our truest friends.

What or who inspired you to become an author?

I don’t recall a time that I did not want to be a writer, from the time I stapled the pages of my pilgrim story together in first grade. It may have been solidified listening to my 6th grade teacher read Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” and being fascinated at how words arranged a certain way could make a guy feel.

What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?

This list refreshes about every 5-10 years, but currently:
A General Theory of Love - Richard Lannon, Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini
Man Alive - Thomas Page McBee
Rumors of Water - L.L. Barkat
The Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit
Donkey Gospel - Tony Hoagland

Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?

John Keats figures prominently in Adjustments. If I had the chance, I’d sit him down at that talk show desk and ask him to say more about negative capability.

What's your favorite thing about writing?

The writing process, for me, is about integration. I can have all the ideas in the world floating around in my head. But the process of writing brings those ideas together, in some ways knits fractured pieces into something cohesive. Seeing that cohesive whole is restorative.

What is a typical day like for you?

Well, unlike my character Will Phillips, I’m not running claims anymore. I train adjusters now. So a typical day for me is getting up early, going to the office and having a little breakfast and some tea or coffee, depending on the day, and trying to get some things done before I go into the classroom for 8 hours. After that, I come home, fix a little dinner, and sit down to read a bit, maybe catch up with friends and family, and some nights I might try to catch a glimpse of Schitt’s Creek on Netflix.

What scene in Adjustments was your favorite to write?

As the relationships in the story unfold, some very unexpectedly even for me as the author, one scene that was terrific fun to write and see personalities develop was when Pearl Jenkins, the protagonist’s landlady, has invited him and the new girl across the street for dinner in an obvious matchmaking scheme.

Will consequently invites Joe, his new friend, to join them in a counter-move to try to matchmake Joe with Pearl. Much of the dialogue in this story is written in a bantering style, which was always fun to write as I virtually acted the scenes out at my desk or at a table in a coffee shop. That banter hits its peak in this scene as Pearl is thrown totally off guard by the introduction of the fourth guest. There are chases around the kitchen with wet towel snaps, knives flourishing, and kicks under the table, along with clever conversation and a little poignancy to boot. Writing that scene was when I first realized that Pearl would be a force to reckon with in the story, a character who could (and must) truly stand on her own, and not just be a secondary figure to help move the story along. (In fact, she’s such a strong, endearing, and humorous character that she now has her own Ask Pearl advice column.)

Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?

I suspect there probably is, but I tend to think that it might be more clear to let others reveal to us the philosophy we live by—based on how they experience the way we live and move in the world. (That, probably, will tell you something about the philosophy I live by.)

Will Willingham is the author of the new book Adjustments.

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Interview with Dea Poirier, Author of Beneath the Ashes

What can you tell us about your new release, Beneath the Ashes?

Beneath the Ashes is the continuation of the Calderwood Cases series. The series follows a deeply damaged female detective as she struggles with her past and works to solve crimes in her home-state of Maine. In my first book, NEXT GIRL TO DIE my main character struggles to solve a murder that's nearly identical to her sister's unsolved case. She must face her past as she works to hunt down a serial killer. In Beneath the Ashes, Claire is back hunting a new serial killer that leaves a strange calling card, he covers his victims in ashes. Claire and her investigative journalist boyfriend Noah must work together to uncover the truth before everything goes up in flames.

What or who inspired you to become an author?

My favorite author Chuck Palahniuk and he constantly inspires me. His book, Diary, is by far my favorite and drives me to be a better author.

What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?

Oh wow, this is really difficult. But if I have to choose: Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, The Queen's Fool by Philipa Gregory, YOU by Caroline Kepnes, Unwind by Neal Shusterman, and A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab.

Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?

I'd want to have Marisha Pessl on so I could ask her literally everything about Night Film. This book fascinates me and I just cannot get it out of my head.

What's your favorite thing about writing?

My favorite part is planning. During planning it feels like there are so many possibilities. I put a lot of effort into my drafts and outlines so I know exactly where a story is going. I love all the planning before the story really starts to take place.

What is a typical day like for you?

I don't really have a typical writing day. My writing is fit into pockets of time in my life. I work full time as a marketing executive, I'm a single mom, so my life is pretty full. But while I'm drafting I try to carve out an hour or two each day.

What scene in Beneath the Ashes was your favorite to write?

Honestly, the first scene. The first murder really sets the tone for the entire novel. I love writing those first opening scenes, bringing the characters to life again, and throwing them into a completely new scenario.

Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?

One word at a time --- I actually have this tattooed on my left wrist as a constant reminder.

Dea Poirier is the author of the new book Beneath the Ashes.

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New Mystery and Thriller Books to Read | November 19

Hold on to the edge of your seat as we hunt for clues and solve the case with these exciting new mystery and thriller books for the week! There are so many bestselling authors with new novels for you to dive into this week including Dea Poirier, Michael Lister, Vincent Panettiere, Tom Clancy, and many more. Enjoy your new mystery, thriller, and suspense novels. Happy reading!

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New Romance Books to Read | November 19

Looking to fall in love with some new romance reads? You’ll adore these exciting new novels! This week you can get your hands on books by bestselling authors L.P. Dover, Kelly Jamieson, Addison Cain, Jay S. Wilder, and more. Enjoy your new romance books and happy reading!

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New Books to Read in Literary Fiction | November 19

Literary fiction readers are in for a treat. This week’s latest releases list is full of intriguing reads you won’t want to miss! The new releases list includes so many bestselling authors like Wayne Grant, Will Willingham, Elizabeth Berg, and many more. Enjoy your new literary fiction books. Happy reading!