JoAnn Ross, Author Pocket Books $7.5 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5743-9
Readers seduced by the first two books in JoAnn Ross's Callahan Brothers trilogy (Blue Bayou; River Road) will be equally charmed by Magnolia Moon. When charismatic Nate Callahan, the mayor of Blue Bayou, La., tracks down Los Angeles homicide ...
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JoAnn Ross. JoAnn Ross, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-335-55678-3
Love for Honeymoon Harbor, Wash., and the families that make it home bring a former high school couple back together for the holidays, only to find they may not want to leave. After a high school romance and painful breakup, Aiden went to the...
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JoAnn Ross. HQN, $7.99 mass market (496p) ISBN 978-1-335-94935-6
A widower gets a second chance at love with his wife’s best friend in this predictable but sweet first book in Ross’s Honeymoon Harbor series. Seth Harper, a renovator of historic homes in the small Pacific Northwest town of Honeymoon Harbor, has...
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JoAnn Ross. Signet, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-23738-5
J.T. Douchett, a Marine officer and emotionally wounded warrior haunted by too many months of notifying relatives of fellow Marines’ deaths, enthralls lusty Irish movie star and screenwriter Mary Joyce in Ross’s scorching fourth romance set in...
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JoAnn Ross. Signet Eclipse, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-23543-5
This tear-jerking tale of a commitment-shy professional cook learning to love a former Navy SEAL in idyllic rural Oregon, the third in Ross’s Shelter Bay series (after One Summer and The Homecoming), may ring familiar bells for readers of Christina...
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JoAnn Ross, Author St. Martin's Press $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-95026-2
Driven heroine Cassie McBride looks to escape her alcoholic mother and their poverty in Gallagher City, Okla., in this entertaining but fomulaic novel. (July)
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JoAnn Ross, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-312-04145-8
This first hardcover novel by a veteran Harlequin romance writer is virtually indistinguishable from her paperback romances; its melodramatic writing style is appropriate to the Hollywood setting, in which a perfect hero and heroine lead glamorous...
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JoAnn Ross, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-312-07762-4
The struggles of a driven, appealing heroine shape this readable but formulaic novel. When young Cassie McBride begins working for the powerful Gallagher family, she hopes for a path away from her alcoholic mother and their poverty in Gallagher City,
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JoAnn Ross, Author . Pocket $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-78617-5
When horse-trainer Alec MacKenna rejects the instructions of an influential employer in the interests of an animal's health, his once-thriving business takes a turn for the worse. Then an old friend asks him to train Legends Lake, an awkward but
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JoAnn Ross, Author Pocket Books $7.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3683-0
A sparkling combination of Southern charm and sexy pyrotechnics, the second book in JoAnn Ross's Callahan Brothers trilogy (following Blue Bayou) jazzes up a familiar formula. Having spent the last few years chasing down a serial killer, FBI...
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JoAnn Ross, Author Mira Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55166-461-3
Imagine sitting in a Irish pub on a rainy night, nursing a pint of Guinness while a good storyteller recounts again an often told story of love and redemption. You may have heard it before, but there's a reason it's a favorite. Quinn Gallagher is a...
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JoAnn Ross, Author Mira Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55166-282-4
Ross (Southern Comforts) steps away from her usual murder-and-mayhem plot this time around with the credible, if somewhat soapy, tale about three sisters who are separated after the murder-suicide of their parents on Christmas Eve, 1972, in Los...
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JoAnn Ross, Author Mira Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55166-167-4
Shallow and sketchy plotting undermine Ross's (Legacy of Lies) otherwise well-written romantic intrigue. One wonders if the murder emphasized on the back cover, but occurring quite late in the story, were actually an afterthought. Celebrity...
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JoAnn Ross, Author Mira Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55166-092-9
There're lots of four-wheel-drive vehicles in modern western romance. Heroine Mariah Swan drives her Jeep Grand Cherokee from Malibu to Whiskey River, Arizona, to make a new beginning with her estranged sister, Laura, the wife of a no-account,...
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JoAnn Ross, Author Pocket Books $7.5 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-02706-3
While Ross's newest modern love story is nicely put together, it's very similar to a cluster of recent romances that have just hit the market. The novel stars a high-powered corporate lawyer, Ms. Raine Cantrell, who's making a splash in New York...
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JoAnn Ross, Author . Signet $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-22320-3
In this first in a trilogy Ross is developing on ex–Special Forces men reacclimating to civilian life, ex-SEAL Zach Tremayne returns to his South Carolina small town to try to forget the horrors of the Iraq War. Sabrina Swann has returned to...
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JoAnn Ross, Author . Pocket $7.50 (383p) ISBN 978-1-4165-0166-4
Ross's return to the bayous of Louisiana sizzles with the sensuality and danger fans of her romantic thrillers have come to expect, as Chicago detective Kate Delaney travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to investigate the supposed suicide of her...
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JoAnn Ross, Author . Pocket $7.50 (386p) ISBN 978-1-4165-0164-0
In bestseller Ross's intense, seamlessly plotted novel of romantic suspense, Tess Gannon, who's been a fire investigator in Somersett, S.C., since her firefighter fiancé, Danny, died two years earlier in a mill fire, teams up with...
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JoAnn Ross, Author . Pocket $7.50 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6475-8
The final novel in Ross's Stewart Sisters romantic suspense trilogy fails to fulfill the series' original promise, though it's considerably stronger than the lackluster second installment, Out of the Blue
. Immediately after Washington...
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JoAnn Ross, Author . Pocket $6.99 (355p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6474-1
Ross's latest, the second in a trilogy begun with the far stronger Out of the Mist
, follows famous country singer Lark Stewart through perils worthy of the silent screen's Pauline. They begin when Lark's longtime bandmate Danny Murphy...
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JoAnn Ross, Author . Pocket $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6473-4
Veteran romance author Ross follows up her Callahan Brothers trilogy (River Road, etc.) with this fun but fitful offering, the first in a new series based on a trio of Scottish-American sisters. The story starts when ornery Scotsman Duncan...
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JoAnn Ross, Author . Pocket $6.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3682-3
A woman's attempt to reunite with her ex-con father and rebuild her life after the death of her deceitful husband lies at the heart of this atmospheric contemporary romance set in Blue Bayou, La. When Danielle Dupree was a teen, her father, a...
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Fern Michaels, Author, JoAnn Ross, Author, Mary Burton, Author . Zebra $7.99 (393p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0363-2
Seven well-known authors contribute to two holiday romance anthologies.
Silver Bells
Fern Michaels
, JoAnn Ross
, Mary Burton
and Judy Duarte
. Zebra
, $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0363-2
Bestseller Michaels (Hokus Pokus
) headlines a quartet of...
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JoAnn Ross. HQN, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-335-41856-2
Ross’s moving latest (after Summer on Mirror Lake) brings together a trio of estranged half-sisters and their 90-something grandmother, a French war bride. After conflict photographer Jackson Swann dies of cancer, his daughters Tess Swann, Charlotte
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