by Trisha Telep
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Annette Blair
Award-winning author Annette Blair owes her contemporary theme – Magic with Heart – to Salem, MA. Whether magic or destiny, this national bestselling writer pens single titles for Berkley Sensations and Vintage Magic Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime. Her historical backlist can soon be found on an e-reader near you. She has published thirty books to date.
www.annetteblair.com
Anna Campbell
Multi-award winning Anna Campbell, voted Australia’s favourite romance writer, authors passionate Regency-set romance for Avon. Anna lives in Australia and loves to travel, especially in the United Kingdom.
www.annacampbell.info
Carolyn Crane
Carolyn Crane is the author of the popular Justine Jones: Disillusionists trilogy (Mind Games, Double Cross and Head Rush). She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and cats.
www.authorcarolyncrane.com
Gwyn Cready
Gwyn Cready is the recipient of the 2009 RITA Award for Best Paranormal Romance and the author of Tumbling Through Time, Seducing Mr. Darcy, Flirting with Forever, Aching for Always and A Novel Seduction. She has been called “the master of time travel romance”. A Novel Seduction is her first foray into contemporary romance, as well as men in kilts, and she found both eminently satisfying. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family.
www.cready.com
Jennifer Estep
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Estep writes the Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series (her story here takes place between books Tangled Threads and Spider’s Revenge), for Pocket Books and the Mythos Academy young adult urban fantasy series for Kensington. She’s also the author of the Bigtime paranormal romance series. Jennifer is forever prowling the streets of her imagination in search of her next fantasy idea.
www.jenniferestep.com
Donna Fletcher
USA Today bestselling author of over thirty Celtic historical romances and paranormals, including her popular Sinclare Brothers series and Wyrrd Witches series. Her books are sold worldwide.
www.donnafletcher.com
Jeannie Holmes
Jeannie fears spiders, large bodies of water and bad weather. Therefore, she moved from rural Mississippi to the Alabama Gulf Coast where all three are in abundance. She writes the Alexandra Sabian series when she isn’t spending time with her husband and four neurotic cats.
www.jeannieholmes.com
Holly Lisle
Holly Lisle is a full-time novelist with more than thirty novels and many short stories published, and more than a million copies of her work in print. She’s in the process of retiring from teaching to devote herself exclusively to fiction, with three courses yet to complete before she’s done. She has a husband and three kids (two adult and one closing the gap entirely too quickly).
www.hollylisle.com
Julia London
Julia London is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty romantic fiction novels. She is the author of the popular Desperate Debutante and Scandalous historical romance series, as well as The Year of Living Scandalously, the first novel in the Secrets of Hadley Green series. Julia is the recipient of the RT Bookclub Award for Best Historical Romance and a four-time finalist for the prestigious RITA award for excellence in romantic fiction. She lives in Round Rock, Texas, with her husband.
www.julialondon.com
Liz Maverick
Liz Maverick is the bestselling, award-winning author of thirteen romance novels. Maverick and her books have been featured in USA Today, Cosmopolitan magazine, San Francisco Magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Toronto Star and more. Known for writing fast-paced, unique plots, she created the USA Today bestselling author continuity series Crimson City and wrote the Cosmopolitan magazine Book Club Pick What a Girl Wants. Her science fiction romance novel Wired won the PRISM award and was named a Top Book of 2009 by Publishers Weekly.
www.lizmaverick.com
Cindy Miles
Cindy Miles is a national bestselling author of romantic ghost stories.
www.cindy-miles.com
Dru Pagliassotti
Author of the award-winning steampunk romance Clockwork Heart, Dru Pagliassotti has also recently published a contemporary horror novel, An Agreement with Hell. She runs the Harrow Press and is a professor of communication at California Lutheran University, where she researches Yaoi manga and male/male romance novels.
www.drupagliassotti.com
Caridad Piñeiro
New York Times and USA Today bestselling paranormal and romantic suspense author Caridad Piñeiro wrote her first novel in the fifth grade. Bitten by the writing bug, Caridad continued with her passion for the written word through high school, college and law school. Her first novel was released in 1999, and today she has twenty-nine published novels and novellas to her credit. When not writing, Caridad is an attorney, wife and mother to an aspiring writer and fashionista.
www.caridad.com
Sara Reinke
Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine describes Sara Reinke as “definitely an author to watch.” New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards calls Reinke “a new paranormal star”, and Love Romances and More hails her as “a fresh new voice”.
www.sarareinke.com
Christie Ridgway
Christie Ridgway is the USA Today bestselling author of over thirty-five contemporary romances. A five-time RITA finalist and winner of RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award, she is a native Californian known for her sun-drenched, sexy and emotional love stories.
www.christieridgway.com
Sharon Shinn
Sharon Shinn has published twenty novels, one collection and assorted pieces of short fiction since her first book came out in 1995. She has won the William C. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer as well as a Reviewer’s Choice Award from the Romantic Times, and two of her novels have been named to the ALA’s lists of Best Books for Young Adults. She also won the 2010 RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category.
www.sharonshinn.net
Linda Wisdom
Bestselling author Linda Wisdom writes paranormal and urban fantasy romances featuring witches with attitude. She’s received a variety of awards over the years and her Hex series has been optioned for film and television.
www.lindawisdom.com
Table of Contents
Copyright
Introduction
T HE C HINESE B ED
O LD S ALT
H AINTS AND H OBWEBS
H AT -T RICK
G HOST OF B LACKSTONE M ANOR
S EVENTEEN C OPPERS
Y OURS IN E TERNITY
T HE L OVERS
A S INGLE G IRL ’ S G UIDE TO G ETTING A HEAD
J ONQUILS IN THE S NOW
T HE H EART T HIEF
G HOST IN THE M ACHINE
T HREE L ITTLE W ORDS
G HOST OF A C HANCE
I N H IS H ANDS
C AN Y OU H EAR M E N OW?
T HE S TORM
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