Celeste Bradley, Author, Christina Dodd, Author, Stephanie Laurens, Author . St. Martin's $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-99522-5
As romance fans would expect from the star-studded lineup in this collection, each Regency-era novella features a high level of sensuality, but the short format of these pieces allows little room for romantic development. In the contributions from...
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Stephanie Laurens, Author, Christina Dodd, Author, Elizabeth Boyle, Author . Avon $6.99 (372p) ISBN 978-0-06-056450-6
Three historical romance veterans present novellas that give the spotlight to heroes who've appeared in previous books in supporting roles. In Laurens's gentle though disappointingly conflict-free Lost and Found
, longtime friends are...
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Christina Dodd, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-108152-1
Lord Rand Malkin has a problem: traumatized by the horrors he witnessed in the Napoleonic Wars, he is unable to walk. Despising himself as a useless cripple, he is determined to end his life--but he can't bring himself to commit suicide until he...
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Christina Dodd, Author Avon Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-108398-3
Medieval fans have a real treat in store in Dodd's newest. Dodd (Move Heaven and Earth) fashions her hero and heroine with such candor and wit that it tempts the imagination. After an attempt is made on her life, Lady Alisoun, the lofty and aloof...
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Christina Dodd, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-79089-0
Set in England and Scotland in 1793, Dodd's (Once a Knight) Georgian romance is bawdy, brainy and ultimately beguiling. The heroine, Mary Fairchild, is a housekeeper who, like the fastidious butler of Kazua Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, strives
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Christina Dodd, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-79090-6
In the early 19th century, the tiny Scottish coastal enclave of Fionnaway is home to both selkies (seals with the ability to assume human form at will) and ""leg walkers"" (humans who coexist under an ancient pact). Ian Fairchild's mother was a...
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Christina Dodd, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-79091-3
Miss Jane Higgenbothem was ruined and sent home in disgrace when her youthful adoration for the rakish Ransom Quincy, Marquess of Blackburn, was exposed--along with the nude statue she made of him. Now 11 years later, she tries to keep a low profile
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Christina Dodd, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-80292-0
Dodd (A Well Favored Gentleman) transports readers into another enticing place and time, in this Regency with an inventive plot and sparkling characters. When English orphan Evangeline Scoffield comes into an unexpected inheritance, she decides to...
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Christina Dodd, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-80293-7
A bestselling author of historical romances, Dodd goes back to 19th-century European kingdoms Bertinierre and Sereminia (setting of The Runaway Princess) in this awkward fairy tale. Widowed Princess Laurentia needs a husband to ensure the succession
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Christina Dodd, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-81198-4
Dodd's extraordinary second book in the Governess Brides series opens with Miss Pamela Lockhart and Miss Hannah Setterington in precarious financial straits: someone has stolen the monthly income that insures the survival of their Distinguished...
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Christina Dodd, Signet, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-41304-8
This serviceable and solid Victorian romance mostly takes place in the fictional country of Moricadia, long oppressed by the despotic de Guignard family. Raul Lawrence, the rightful heir to the Moricadian throne, is distracted from his covert...
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Christina Dodd. St. Martin's, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-02841-9
In the predictable first of a new suspense series, bestseller Dodd (Lady in Black) tracks West Coast turmoil of all sorts. For starters, a serial killer who delights in murdering young women and mutilating their children is loose in California....
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Christina Dodd. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-02847-1
Bestseller Dodd incorporates a touch of the paranormal into her occasionally uneven second Virtue Falls contemporary romantic thriller (after Virtue Falls). Artist and interior decorator Taylor Summers is sketching in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains when
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Christina Dodd. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-02845-7
In Dodd’s intriguing third Virtue Falls contemporary romance (after Obsession Falls), traumatized and disreputable Madeline Hewitson is the author of bestselling thrillers—but they are published under a pseudonym, and her brother, Andrew, is the...
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Christina Dodd. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-02848-8
Mute-but-not-deaf Merida Falcon takes center stage in bestseller Dodd’s lively fourth novel set in Virtue Falls, Wash. (after 2016’s Because I’m Watching). At the beginning of tourist season in Virtue Falls, the newly opened Good Knight Manor Bed...
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Christina Dodd. HQN, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-335-14436-2
Bestseller Dodd’s new thriller takes place on the dark, rainy North Pacific Coast. Kellen Adams is running away from a past she can’t completely remember. After a stint in the army, she becomes the assistant manager of an isolated resort in Virtue...
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Christina Dodd. HQN, $15.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-335-50753-2
Dodd’s prequel to 2018’s Dead Girl Running starts slowly, weighed down by protagonist Kellen Adams’s complicated backstory, which includes a murder/suicide; a stolen identity; a stint in the army in Afghanistan; a stretch of homelessness; 13 months...
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Christina Dodd, Author . Avon $7.99 (362p) ISBN 978-0-06-056118-5
Dodd's fine, final installment in her Lost Princess series recounts the story of Crown Princess Sorcha of the tiny European country Beaumontagne. Forced into hiding in a Scottish convent 10 years earlier, when revolutionaries threatened her...
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Christina Dodd, Author . Avon $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-81963-8
Fraught with overwrought characters and contrived plot twists, the fifth entry in Dodd's early Victorian-era Governess Bride series picks up where the previous novel, In My Wildest Dreams, left off. Unlike the other members of the Distinguished...
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Christina Dodd, Author . Avon $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-009264-1
The Sound of Music
meets Jane Eyre
in Dodd's refreshingly humorous addition to her post–Regency era Governess Brides series (In My Wildest Dreams, etc.). After being dismissed—again!—for her inability to stand by and watch
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Christina Dodd, Author . Avon $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-009265-8
Dodd, author of the bestselling Governess Brides series (My Favorite Bride, etc.), is back with the first Regency-era romance in her two-part Changing Places series. Lady Madeline de Lacy, one of the most powerful women in England, is struggling to...
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Christina Dodd, Author . Pocket $6.99 (374p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5617-3
Shining with all the humor of her historical romances—but with a sassy edge that reflects the story's modern setting—Dodd's (My Favorite Bride, etc.) first foray into the contemporary arena is nothing short of a success....
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Christina Dodd, Author . Avon $7.50 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-009266-5
Readers who adore Dodd's alpha male heroes will savor her latest Regency-era romance, which knits together an impostress, a missing duchess, several murders and an American with a vendetta. Self-described as "born timid," Eleanor de Lacy
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Christina Dodd, Author . Morrow $21.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-06-056124-6
Propelled by the winning assurance, sensuality and humor that have pushed Dodd's paperback romances (Once Upon a Pillow
, etc.) onto bestseller lists, this hardcover debut launches a trilogy centered on the Lost Princesses, three young women who
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Christina Dodd, Author . Pocket $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5618-0
Readers who were wooed by the first installment in Dodd's contemporary Prescott sisters trilogy, Just the Way You Are
, may be disappointed by this unlikely, terrorism-based tale. Orphaned, separated from her siblings and shuttled through foster
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Christina Dodd, Author . Pocket Star $6.99 (396p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5619-7
Bestseller Dodd (Almost Like Being in Love
) delivers a high-octane, blow-out finale to her series chronicling the adventures and reunions of the Prescott sisters, who were separated as children. When up-and-coming TV reporter Kate Montgomery (n&eacu
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Christina Dodd, Author . Avon $7.99 (363p) ISBN 978-0-06-056117-8
The witty second entry in bestseller Dodd's Lost Princesses historical series (after Some Enchanted Evening
) chronicles the story of Princess Amy Rosabel, one of the three displaced princesses of Beaumontagne, a small European kingdom. In 1810,
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Christina Dodd, Author . Signet $7.99 (381p) ISBN 978-0-451-21912-1
Despite a cover featuring a modern pair of designer heels, this far-fetched romantic intrigue feels like a Regency awkwardly dressed in contemporary clothes. You have your arrogant rake, playboy Italian count and indicted jewel thief Roberto...
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Christina Dodd, Author . Avon $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-81962-1
With this delicious, witty confection, Dodd adds another early Victorian episode to her Governess Brides series and forsakes the angst that gave her earlier Governess titles (Rules of Attraction, etc.) a bitter flavor. Widower Garrick Throckmorton...
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Christina Dodd, Author . Signet $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-22173-5
This satisfying series kickoff finds Ann Smith, an inexperienced, plain-Jane office assistant, dropping off some paperwork at the home of her handsome, successful boss, Jasha Wilder—and hoping to use the opportunity to confess her mad crush on
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Christina Dodd, Author . Signet $7.99 (388p) ISBN 978-0-451-22451-4
The latest Dodd saga following the Wilder and Varinski clans features third brother Adrik Wilder, who, transforming into a panther, goes feral and becomes a vicious warlord. As such, he comes to strong-willed, nocturnal construction supervisor Karen
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Christina Dodd, Author . Signet $7.99 (388p) ISBN 978-0-451-22763-8
Dodd (Into the Flame
) kicks off a new paranormal romantic suspense series with this gripping story. Jacqueline Vargha desperately denies the gift that rates her a place among the Chosen Ones, a group of seven extrasensoried young people who will...
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Christina Dodd, read by Rebecca Soler. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-4371-3
The first novel in Dodd’s new series focuses on Elizabeth Banner, a stunningly beautiful but emotionally blocked geologist who has returned to Virtue Falls, Wash., the oceanside town where, a couple of decades ago, at the age of four, she supposedly
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Christina Dodd, Author, Connie Brockway, With Pocket Books $12 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3680-9
An 800-year-old bed bears silent witness to centuries' worth of naughty shenanigans in Once Upon a Pillow, a collaboration between veteran romance writers Christina Dodd (In My Wildest Dreams) and Connie Brockway (The Bridal Season). The epic...
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Christina Dodd. HQN, $17.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-335-08082-0
At 18, Evie Jones, the heroine of this spine-tingling thriller from bestseller Dodd (What Doesn’t Kill Her), leaves a juvenile detention facility in California to reunite with her mother and sister in Rockin, Alaska, where Donald White hires her as...
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Christina Dodd. HQN, $28.99 (412p) ISBN 978-1-335-67991-8
In this atmospheric romantic thriller from bestseller Dodd (Wrong Alibi), the city of Gothic, perched on California’s stormy Big Sur, is known as a refuge for “lost souls,” one of whom is recluse Adam Ramsdell, who turns metal refuse from the sea...
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Christina Dodd. Canary Street, $17.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-335-62400-0
Bestseller Dodd’s busy sequel to 2022’s Point Last Seen opens a thousand years ago in Tajikistan, where a miner discovers a fabulous ruby. A holy man, who recognizes that “the gem held the potential to incite violence,” places the ruby inside a...
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Christina Dodd. Kensington/Scognamiglio, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-5016-7
Launching a new series based on an alternate ending to Romeo and Juliet, Dodd (Point Last Seen) spins an entracing story of an ill-fated wedding engagement. It’s narrated by the star-crossed couple’s oldest daughter, Rosie, who tells of how her...
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