Jennifer Blake, Author Mira Books $5.99 (376p) ISBN 978-1-55166-490-3
In the second installment of her Turn-Coupe, La., series (after Kane), Blake introduces her newest heroine, famed romance author April Halstead. April's life is threatened when she decides to use one of Luke Benedict's ancestors in her latest book....
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Jennifer Blake. Mira, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1243-7
Prolific author Blake (Fierce Eden) launches the Three Graces trilogy with an enjoyable Tudor-era romance. Lady Isabel Milton and her sisters are the Three Graces of Graydon, said to bear a curse that dooms any man betrothed to them without love....
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Jennifer Blake, Sourcebooks Casablanca, $9.99 trade paper (408p) ISBN 978-1-4022-3848-2
Gullible widow Elise Laffont draws the attention of Reynaud Chevalier, a frontiersman caught between two worlds, in this tale of romance in 1730s Louisiana. When the Natchez attack Fort Rosalie, part-Natchez Reynaud leads Elise and a few survivors...
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Jennifer Blake, Author Ballantine Books $20 (346p) ISBN 978-0-449-90618-7
Strong-willed, beautiful Camilla Greenley Hutton is trying to get her life in order, anticipating divorce from her ne'er-do-well husband, Keith, who left her for a teenager. Now, however, Keith has become alarmingly physical in his efforts to resume
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Jennifer Blake, Author Ballantine Books $18 (341p) ISBN 978-0-449-90617-0
Following Joy and Anger , Blake moves to the perfume industry as the background for her latest novel, a competent mix of romance, history and intrigue. When Joletta Caresse inherits her family's perfume shop in New Orleans, she also becomes heir to...
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Jennifer Blake, Author Ballantine Books $18 (358p) ISBN 978-0-449-90621-7
Veteran paperback romance writer Blake, whose first hardcover was Love and Smoke , mines cliches familiar to the genre in her newest romantic mystery, set in the Louisiana bayous and the Hollywood film world. Directing Swamp Kingdom , her first...
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Jennifer Blake, Author Fawcett Books $17.95 (389p) ISBN 978-0-449-90430-5
Prolific romance novelist Blake ( Perfume of Paradise ) makes her hardcover debut in a tale that brims with improbable melodrama, howling inanities, and laughable villains and temptresses. Wealthy New Orleans widow Riva Staulet loathes politician...
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Jennifer Blake, Author Ballantine Books $8.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-449-90101-4
Mara Delacroix, a beautiful Louisiana belle,is blackmailed into seducing Roderic, the gypsy prince of Ruthenia. Eventually she will be called on to betray him in some unnamed way. She pretends to fall in love with Roderic after stumbling into a...
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Jennifer Blake, Author Harlequin Books $6.5 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55166-898-7
Though nearly a year has passed since the World Trade Center attack, readers may be unprepared for Wade, the final entry in Jennifer Blake's Louisiana Gentlemen series (Clay, etc.). Since she was 14, American Chloe Madison has lived in Hazaristan,
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Jennifer Blake, Author Mira Books $6.5 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55166-630-3
The third installment in Blake's lighthearted Louisiana Gentleman series (after Kane and Luke) introduces small-town Sheriff Roan Benedict. The sheriff is chasing down a speeding van whose occupants have robbed the local grocery store when one of...
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Jennifer Blake, Author . Mira $6.50 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55166-819-2
Blake draws a powerful portrait of a mother who will risk everything, including imprisonment, to save her eight-year-old daughter's life in the fourth installment of her Louisiana Gentlemen series (after Roan). Janna Kerr's daughter, Lainey,
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Jennifer Blake, Author Mira Books $5.99 (380p) ISBN 978-1-55166-429-3
In the first book of Blake's (Garden of Scandal) new series set in the small fictional town of Turn-Coupe, La., lawyer Kane Benedict has taken on Berry Associations, an unethical funeral service company bent on forcing small funeral homes out of...
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Jennifer Blake, Author Mira Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55166-281-7
From a veteran like Blake, one expects a little more than annoying characters who do improbable things. Agoraphobic Laurel Bancroft has been unable to leave Ivywild, her Victorian house, since she accidentally killed her husband five years before....
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Jennifer Blake, Author Ivy Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14938-6
The prose in Blake's latest (after Shameless) is rather like rococo art: complex, often lyrical and a tad grandiloquent. After an explosion destroys the riverboat on which she is traveling, Angelica Carew awakens to find herself supposedly wed to...
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Jennifer Blake, Author Ballantine Books $19 (325p) ISBN 978-0-449-90824-2
Blake ( Wildest Dreams ) is at her best in this historical romance, a fine piece of unashamed escapism set in antebellum Louisiana. Katrine Castlereagh is dutiful wife to the mysteriously incapacitated Giles, whose mad desire for an heir leads to a...
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Jennifer Blake, Author Ivy Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14675-0
Louisiana Bayous and the Hollywood film world provide the sultry background for this unsuprising but competent romance. Blake's Love & Smoke has more than 625,000 paperbacks in print. (July)
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Jennifer Blake, Author Ballantine Books $8.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-449-90521-0
This silly, continent-hopping novel displays Blake's ( Love and Smoke ) trademark melange of blistering romance, historical melodrama and derring-do. In late 18th-century Seville, Pilar Marie Sandoval y Serna must escape the clutches of her...
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Jennifer Blake, Author Ballantine Books $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-90178-6
It is the 18th century, and Cyrene Nolte, a woman of high character, lives near the Louisiana waterfront and is thankful that her two brothers are close by to guard her virtue. But one night, during a rare moment alone, Cyrene rescues Rene Lemonnier
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Jennifer Blake, Author, Heather Graham, Joint Author, Diana Palmer, Joint Author . Mira $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55166-876-5
Romances are ideal for beach reading, especially when they're broken into easily digestible chunks and seasoned with humor, as in these three novellas. The first entry, Blake's "Adam," describes the coming together of Lara Kincaid, a
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