Erin McCarthy, Donna Kauffman, and Kate Angell. Kensington/Brava, $14 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5132-9
This anthology of Christmas-themed romances from three noted authors of the genre offers an abundance of sexual tension, but little plot. As devised by McCarthy (Mouth to Mouth), Kauffman (Off Kilter), and Angell (Sliding Home), each set of couples...
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Donna Kauffman. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (344p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3747-7
In Kaufmann’s festive but poorly paced second Brides of Blueberry Cove romp (after Sea Glass Sunrise), long-delayed love blooms at last. Ben Campbell always fancied Hannah McCrae, but she’s about to marry someone else. When Hannah’s younger sister,...
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Donna Kauffman. Kensington, $14 trade paper (344p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9277-3
Kauffman’s lovable new series, less sugar-fueled than her Cupcake Club books but just as sweet, portrays a small Maine community as surrogate family. A year after Alex McFarland saw her father fall to his death from a lighthouse, she takes over her...
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Donna Kauffman. Kensington, $14 trade paper (323p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9281-0
Kauffman’s third visit to endearing Blueberry Cove, Maine (after Half Moon Harbor) solidifies the idea of the whole town as a quirky family. Blueberry Cove’s inhabitants love one another even while they’re process their own insecurities, and they...
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Donna Kauffman. Kensington, $14 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9279-7
Kauffman’s second Bachelors of Blueberry Cove contemporary (after Pelican Point) explores themes of home, family, and belonging in a warm, positive story filled with deep-hearted, articulate characters who learn to trust as they open themselves to...
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Donna Kauffman. Kensington/Brava, $14 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-8050-3
Warm friendships and deep conversations form the backbone of Kaufmann’s third Cupcake Club romance. Kit Bellamy, who relocates to tiny Sugarberry Island to head up mail-order cupcakery Babycakes after her brother-in-law sells her family’s peanut pie
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Donna Kauffman. Kensington/Brava, $14 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-6636-1
Romantic fun, lovable leads, and surprising emotional complexity in both the main relationship and the supporting deep friendships make this quick return to the tiny Georgia island of Sugarberry (after Sugar Rush) a deliciously warm and feel-good...
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Donna Kauffman. Kensington/Brava, $14 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-6634-7
The opening novel of Kauffmann’s Cupcake Club series is as sweet and adorable as its namesake treat. Leilani Trusdale spends 10 years training with charming but tough chef Baxter “Hot Cakes” Dunne, taking over his New York City pastry shop when he...
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Donna , . Kensington/Brava, $14 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5089-6
In the second of a loosely related trilogy (after June 2010's Some Like It Scot), Kauffman spins a complex tale of personal rediscovery. Roped into posing for a sexy Highlander-hunk-of-the-month calendar contest, Roan McAuley is irritated and then...
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Donna Kauffman, Author . Kensington/Brava $14 (327p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3133-8
In Kauffman's latest sensual scorcher, middle-aged Kirby Farrell worries that the mild winter may spell disaster for her Vermont ski lodge—until she's distracted by Brett Hennessey, a sexy biker in black leather on the run from Las...
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Donna Kauffman, Author . Kensington $14 (421p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3131-4
Kauffman's bland latest sends a D.C. workaholic to a cozy Colorado resort town to find sex and intrigue. When Lauren Matthews arrives in Cedar Springs, she is eager to learn about her mother's impulsive marriage to Mayor Arlen Thompson....
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Donna Kauffman, Author . Kensington/Brava $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3129-1
In this clunky romantic thriller from RITA-finalist Kauffman (The Great Scot
), Tate Winslow, a former operative for a covert U.S. government agency, goes into a witness protection program and becomes, somewhat improbably, Tara Wingate, a successful
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Donna Kauffman, Author . Bantam $11 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-38234-1
Kauffman follows The Big Bad Wolf Tells All
with another fairy tale–themed comic romance, this one focusing on heiress Darby Landon, who has forsaken her family's glitzy life in favor of a rugged existence on a Montana ranch. When Darby...
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Donna Kauffman, Author . Bantam $10.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-38222-8
Suspense meets contemporary romantic comedy as Kauffman takes a detour from her usual historical romances (The Charm Stone) to follow a hip young alpha female in San Francisco. Tanzy Harrington writes a romance column for MainLine, "the hottest...
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Donna Kauffman, Author . Bantam $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-58242-0
Kauffman (Your Wish Is My Command) continues to mix fantasy, sex and touchy-feely wisdom in this breezy time-travel romance about the Royal Hunter, a 23rd-century Australian mercenary who travels to 21st-century Connecticut to fetch Eleri Trahaern,...
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Donna Kauffman, Kate Angell, and Kimberly Kincaid. Kensington, $15 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9088-5
Kincaid (Outside the Lines) shares a Christmas-themed preview of the setting for her new series, a snowy Blue Ridge town called Pine Mountain, with Kauffman and Angell in a triad of loosely linked foodie novellas. Kaufman’s goofy but adorable “Where
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Donna Kauffman, Author, Jill Shalvis, Author, HelenKay Dimon, Author . Kensington/Brava $14 (326p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3884-9
A trio of treats fill out this anthology for readers in search of holiday happily ever afters. In Kauffman’s “Lock, Stock and Jingle Bells,” Holly Bennett returns from London to Willow Creek, Va., to deal with an unexpected gift...
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Kauffman, Author, Donna Kauffman, Author . Bantam $5.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-58457-8
At the start of this intergenerational romance—she's a 25-year-old South Carolina surfergirl and he's a 300-year-old Scottish ghost—Josie Griffin gets knocked off her surfboard by a sea-born treasure chest containing an ancient
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Donna Kauffman. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (308p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4933-3
Two former rodeo stars get a second chance at love in the sweet contemporary standalone that opens Kauffman’s Firefly Lake series, spinning off her Blue Hollow Falls series. Cheyenne “Chey” McCafferty left the rodeo following the death of her...
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