Jodi Thomas. HQN, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-335-00563-2
Hope is the defining characteristic of Thomas’s eighth Ransom Canyon contemporary (after Mornings on Main), which loosely connects three couples who find holiday-season love in trying times. Griffin is a die-hard rancher trying to save his family’s...
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Jodi Thomas. Harlequin, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-373-78930-6
In Thomas’s stellar contemporary, Crossroads, Tex., is where broken people go to hide, and with kindness and trust, they find friendship and love. Talented artist Victoria is desperate to escape from the gilded cage in which her parents have trapped
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Jodi Thomas. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26840-7
Thomas knocks it out of the park again with her seventh contemporary set in Harmony, Tex. (after Can’t Stop Believing). Ronny Logan and Austin Hawk are looking for peace out by Rainbow Lane. They both have reasons to crave solitude—he’s recovering...
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Jodi Thomas. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-25074-7
Bestseller Thomas strikes gold again with her seventh Whispering Mountain historical (after Wild Texas Rose), set in 1879 Texas. When 24-year-old Beth McMurray sneaks onto a train to surprise her fiancé, former Senator Lamont LaCroix, she’s shocked...
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Jodi Thomas, Author Berkley Publishing Group $6.5 (307p) ISBN 978-0-425-17516-3
Reverend Daniel McLain desperately needs help in bringing guidance and peace to the mid-19th-century Western town of Jefferson, Tex., and with twin toddlers running him ragged, he can't get focused. He appeals to his late wife's family and expects...
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Jodi Thomas, Author . Mira $6.50 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2064-7
Beautiful Blaine Anderson, who lives in a posh Austin, Tex., townhouse with her lawyer husband, Mark, seems to have it all. In reality, she's a timid trophy wife who's secretly terrified by city traffic, threatened by change and especially...
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Jodi Thomas, Author . Jove $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-13848-1
While Thomas recently made a splash with two contemporary novels, The Widows of Wichita County
and Finding Mary Blaine
, it's her nearly 20 historical romances, set in her native state of Texas, that have earned her two RITA awards. This...
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Jodi Thomas, Author . Mira $6.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2202-3
In a genteel but economically troubled small Texas town, a citizens' committee comes together to make a tough decision. Is the deserted and derelict home of Clinton Creek's founder, Henry Altman, worth saving? Or should the town save itself...
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Jodi Thomas, Author . Berkley $7.99 (296p) ISBN 978-0-425-22081-8
Fortune smiles on Allie Daniels and her elderly Nana in the form of an unexpected West Texas inheritance from a mysterious “Uncle Jefferson Platt,” of whom Allie doesn’t recall any talk. Raised by her grandparents, Allie quit...
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Jodi Thomas, Author Berkley 7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-23510-2
Thomas (The Lone Texan) sets her latest trilogy in a town founded by three families who are also bitter rivals: McAllen, Matheson, and Truman. Nothing much happens in Harmony, Tex., except on Saturday nights, when the town sheriff is brawling at the
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Jodi Thomas, Berkley, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-23772-4
Thomas's follow-up to Welcome to Harmony is an absorbing return to a colorful cast of characters in a small Texas town. Seventeen-year-old Reagan Truman's life consists of balancing shifts at the local diner with finishing high school and caring for
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Jodi Thomas, Author Jove Books $7.99 (330p) ISBN 978-0-515-13629-6
In 1880, three young women are expelled from a wagon train in the middle of wild-and women-starved-Texas: young widow Sarah Andrews, volunteer nurse Lacy Dillavou and spunky Bailee Moore. All three become murder suspects when a no-goodnik ...
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Jodi Thomas, Author Jove Books $6.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-515-12503-0
The second installment in Thomas's Texan Touch trilogy, set in the post- Civil War years, tells the story of love between down-on-his-luck rancher Wes McLain and wild-child Allie, whom he rescues from a cage in a preacher's traveling show. The...
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Jodi Thomas, Author . Jove $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-515-13400-1
Two emotionally scarred people find love in this fast-paced Western from Thomas (To Wed in Texas, etc.). When Bailee Moore and her two female companions are voted off a wagon train, they reluctantly make their way to Texas, where they are accosted...
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Jodi Thomas, Berkley, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-24047-2
Bestseller Thomas's fifth Whispering Mountain American historical (after 2009's The Lone Texan) is another winner. When Texas Ranger Duncan McMurray tells gambler Lewton Paterson that he's sending three men from good families to court his three...
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Jodi Thomas. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-24448-7
In her third Harmony novel, Thomas (Welcome to Harmony) takes readers back to that Texas town where a number of romances come to a head after a tornado strikes. Funeral director Tyler Wright struggles to profess his love to Maj. Kate Cummings....
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Jodi Thomas. . Berkley, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-24692-4
Thomas’s fourth Harmony novel (after The Comforts of Home) introduces a strong, compelling heroine. Addison Spencer is a doctor in Harmony, Tex., hiding from her past. Tinch Turner is a cowboy, coping with his grief for his dead wife. Tinch gets...
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Jodi Thomas, Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWanna Pace. Kensington Zebra, $6.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1173-6
Four honorable outlaws find romance in this uneven collection of novellas, the fourth from this group of writers (after 2010's Give Me a Texas Ranger). In headliner Thomas's flimsy "The Outlaw," pretty little liar Cozette cons outlaw-with-a-heart-of-
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Jodi Thomas, DeWanna Pace, Linda Broday, and Phyliss Miranda. Kensington/Zebra, $6.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1966-4
In their fifth novella anthology, Thomas, Pace, Broday, and Miranda (Give Me a Texas Ranger) develop a shared setting of Kasota Springs, Tex., in the December 1887 blizzard. Thomas’s thrilling “One Wish” brings together an outcast and a rich girl...
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Jodi Thomas, Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWannna Pace. Kensington/Zebra, $6.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1967-1
The authors’ sixth Texas-themed collaboration (after Give Me a Texas Ranger) is all hat and no cattle. Thomas’s quietly effective story unites a two-time widow and an itinerant Yankee cowboy looking for human comfort in a lonely world. Nuanced...
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Jodi Thomas, Marie Force, Virginia Kantra, and Shirley Jump. Jove, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-15538-9
Each of the four authors brings something uniquely touching to this collection of contemporary romantic novellas, all of which have taking a dare as the central impetus to love, from the sweet stirrings of rekindled affections to the nervous bliss...
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Jodi Thomas. HQN, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-335-50501-9
In the eighth Texas-based Ransom Canyon contemporary (after Mistletoe Miracles), Thomas has too many plates spinnning and ends up dropping a few. As Christmas approaches, Elliot Holloway is brooding over his former girlfriend Jessica Brantley when...
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Jodi Thomas. Zebra, $15.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5128-2
Six lost souls find true love in the sweet first romance of the Honey Creek series from Thomas (Mornings on Main). When Honey Creek mayor Piper Mackenzie’s “nitwit fiancé” goes missing, her brother asks Texas state trooper Colby McBride to...
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Jodi Thomas. Zebra, $15.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5131-2
With the satisfying second Honey Creek romance, Thomas further develops two relations begun in Breakfast at the Honey Creek Café and adds several appealing new characters and story lines. Returning readers will enjoy revisiting Pecos Smith—a kind,...
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Jodi Thomas. Zebra, $15.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5134-3
The residents of Clifton Bend, Tex., discover love when least expected in bestseller Thomas’s emotional third Honey Creek romance (after Picnic in Someday Valley). Clifton College biology professor Virginia “Jenny” Clark asks standoffish colleague...
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Jodi Thomas. Zebra, $15.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5137-4
Thomas’s fourth Honey Creek romance (after Dinner on Primrose Hill) captures the charm of a small Texas town as its residents discover love. Melody Avendale, 17, is tired of her professor parents controlling every aspect of her life and rebels with...
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Jodi Thomas. Zebra, $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5507-5
Thomas’s touching first Someday Valley romance, a spin-off of her Honey Creek series, highlights the endearing residents of a close-knit Texas community. When loner Rusty O’Sullivan crashes his car in Someday Valley, he’s saved from the wreckage by...
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Jodi Thomas, Celia Bonaduce, and Rachael Miles. Kensington, $15.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2130-3
These three novellas, connected by the 1859 Christmas Eve ball at Dallas’s St. Nicholas Hotel, are uneven tales of frontier romance. Thomas opens the anthology with “One Night at the St. Nicholas,” a jam-packed story of instant love between unlikely
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Jodi Thomas, Lori Wilde, and Patience Griffin. Zebra, $16.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5374-3
The art of quilting plays a pivotal role in helping lonely, wounded souls find their hearts’ desires in these three uplifting contemporary romance novellas. In Thomas’s sweet “The Secret Wish,” Avery, a ballet dancer recovering from a grave injury,...
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