In the late 1930s, Iris Black is feeling restless. She wants more out of life than to be a wife and mother, pandering to the whims and desires of an undeserving husband. Iris wants to experience life, excitement and unbridled passion. She yearns to break out of the constraints society imposes on her gender and on her social class and be her own woman. But Iris’s plans for self-discovery take an unexpected turn when she encounters Johnny Fenwick.

Johnny is one of Durham’s most eligible bachelors. Every girl in the district wants to get her hands on him – and his veritable fortune. But Johnny does not want to be seen as a cash prize for some social-climbing matchmaking mama and her guileless debutante daugher. He wants to share his life with a woman who is his equal in every way and when he meets Iris at a boring party, it finally looks like he’s finally found the woman he’s been searching for.

Iris and Johnny soon embark on a relationship which sees Iris breaking yet another taboo of the time and sleeping with Johnny. Although she is head over heels in love with him, Iris knows that she cannot marry him; not before she gets this feeling of her restlessness out of her system. When Johnny proposes to her and asks her to be his wife, Iris finds herself forced to break his heart and refuse his proposal.

Shocked, furious and devastated, Johnny, not prepared to wait for Iris forever, proposes to Nan Fielding, a shy and impoverished middle class girl who had fallen on hard times after her father’s death. Although Iris understands Johnny’s decision to marry someone else, she realizes that she cannot hang around Durham and watch Johnny build a life for himself with another woman. With the war looming, Iris decides to leave Durham behind and train as a nurse.

On the front line, Iris sees things she never thought she’d see and the headstrong young girl matures into an intelligent young woman who has never forgotten her first love. But on her return to Durham, Iris gets some shocking news. News that will change her life…forever!

Silver Street is an absolutely superb saga I just couldn’t put down! Wonderfully absorbing, immensely poignant and sublimely written, in Silver Street talented storyteller Elizabeth Gill deftly blends the subtle characterization of Joanna Trollope, the quiet passion of Audrey Howard and the skillful plotting of a true master as she takes her readers on an emotional journey of love and loss that will make them laugh and cry! Entrancing, enchanting and engrossing from start to finish, Silver Street is a heart wrenching and enthralling saga that is in a class of its own!

Draegon, Lord of Greystone, also called the Shadow Lord, learned when he was a child to keep himself under cover. His daemon eyes and silver streaked hair frightened the superstitious common folk and brought nothing but grief. Even his adoptive father told him to never reveal his face, so he only ventured out in the blackest stormy nights. It was such a night when he saw several heavily armed men chasing a young woman into his woods. Draegon saved the lady and gave her refuge at Greystone.

The lady, Draegon calls Wren, has lost her memory but she knows she must stay away from those who seek her. She carries tragic secrets that terrorize her. Draegon helps Wren to keep her secrets even though he knows they may bring ruin to his people. But will his love for her also destroy them both?

Award winning author Linda Ciletti’s début novel, DRAEGON’S LAIR, is a stunning medieval romance with well developed characters, including a foe you will love to hate, and a fast moving plot that enthralls and keeps the reader on her toes. As each secret is revealed, the reader becomes more and more involved, hoping for a happy ending. Be sure to experience this classic romance.

Holly Carver is a witch with a purpose. She needs tuition money and to gain it, she started her own business where she specializes in ghost busting. She and her sometime partner, Alessandro Caravelli, arrive at the Flanders Place to remove a few problems. The house though, has its own sentience and needs. It has taken first four students and then two professors. Holly knows she must work hard to save them, a fact made especially important when she realizes one of the professors is her boyfriend. While she is successful in saving most of the captives, a whole new problem is brought to life. Someone is calling forth creatures that have lived in the Castle for years, creatures not seen in a long time, forgotten by many. In addition, her boyfriend walks when he realizes he cannot handle Holly’s magic. To make matters worse, a series of murders leads to a vampire and Holly’s vampire, Alessandro, is taking some heat from the cops all while generating heat in her. As the situation worsens, it would appear as if Holly is the key to portal.

Alessandro was one sexy vampire. He wanted Holly and she wanted him back but as her grandma warned her – indulgences with a vampire can lead to disaster. With everyone courting Holly for her magic, it is Alessandro who wants her for more than that. Can Holly afford to give in? The fate of the world may rest on her decision.

Sharon Ashwood’s debut novel leads us into a world populated with a variety of creatures, some sexy and some definitely not. Her take on the supernatural lore is intriguing and can lead to lots of interesting tales. The ending was action packed and will keep us glued to the pages as we watched the entire plot unfold with more than a few surprises and quite a bit of satisfaction. We will all be waiting with bated breath for the next book which based on the preview will tie up at least one loose end. Ravenous: The Dark Forgotten is fantastic, especially in view of the fact that Sharon Ashwood has created a new group of characters for us to fall in love with.

Miss Katherine Penn is not like the other young ladies of the ton. She is absolutely fascinated by the theatre and longs with all her heart to see the plays which she writes being performed on stage. But in the stuffy academic confines of Cambridge, playwrights are deemed immoral, improper and downright scandalous, and as the daughter of a professor, it is Katherine’s duty to adhere to the rigid strictures of society. But Katherine is not prepared to give up on her dream; she just needs to find a way to achieve her goal – and little does she know that help is just around the corner!

When Philip, Lord Ramsay, comes across Katherine, she’s soaking wet, stinking of pond weed and looking anything but proper! Philip is intrigued by this unusual miss and when he hears of her love of the stage and her passion for the theatre, he offers her the use of his theatre in order to keep the beguiling beauty close by.

Katherine is over the moon that her dream is about to be realized – and she’s even happier when Philip offers her his help! The more time the two spend together, the more they realize that they are fallen passionately in love with one another.

But with danger lurking round every corner, will the unusual Miss Penn and the dashing Lord Ramsay be able to defeat their enemy and emerge victorious – in one another’s arms?

Emily Hendrickson’s delightful Regency romance is sure to please a legion of readers looking for an enjoyable and amusing romp laced with plenty of intrigue and suspense! Told with plenty of warmth and wit and full of delicious twists and turns, this spellbinding Regency will go down a treat with Regency fans everywhere!

Amusing, evocative and totally compelling, The Roguish Miss Penn is an unmissable historical romance Regency fans will not want to miss!

Lord Justin Belforte was working on an assignment for his country, when he was captured, beaten and left for dead in Spain. Rescued by a Spanish senorita who nursed him back to health, Justin returned to England where he was given orders by his superiors to lie low and to get as far away from London as possible. Realizing that the only option open to him is to go to the countryside, Justin sets off for the green pastures of England unaware that his life is about the be changed forever!

On his way to one of his father’s remote estates, Justin hears the muffled cries of despair of a young lady locked inside a derelict shack, and risking blowing his cover, he throws all caution to the wind and rescues Miss Catherine Meade and her little dog Silk from certain death. But just as he’s about to crawl out of the shack, the whole building collapses on top of him and he ends up bruised, battered and completely unable to remember anything about his life!

Miss Meade is mortified when she realizes that this kind stranger can’t even remember his name because he was trying to do her a good deed. Even though she doesn’t know the first thing about this stranger, she decides to help him out by allowing him to recuperate in the house she shares with her grandmother and her widowed cousin.

Justin is absolutely clueless as to who he is and where he was supposed to be going, but he’s rather enjoying the company of Catherine and her relatives and hopes to get closer to his benefactor.

Having already been burned once by love, Catherine has so far refused to give her heat to another man ever again, but even she cannot deny that she’s growing increasingly fond of the man she has renamed John Smith – it’s just a pity however that she just cannot trust him!

But will one of his tempting kisses be able to change her mind?

Rich in intrigue, full of passion and sparkling with plenty of style and wit, readers looking for an enjoyable Regency romance to lose themselves in will not regret picking up A Dedicated Scoundrel by the talented Anne Barbour!