Kat Martin, Author . Pocket $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1915-4
Seasoned romance scribbler Martin (Heartless; The Secret) harks back to the days when an Englishwoman playing cards was a cause for scandal, setting up a conflagration between Kitt Wentworth, a lady who will not be stifled by the strict conventions...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $79.84 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-95354-6
Sizzling with sexual tension and ripe with rich emotion, this medieval romance is a real pleasure. Norman knight Ral the Relentless cannot forgive himself for mistakenly allowing Caryn of Ivesham and her sister Gweneth to be assaulted by a cruel...
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Kat Martin, Author Zebra Books $6.99 (349p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7380-2
It's hard to figure out why Midnight Sun is categorized as a ""romantic suspense"" when there is none of the latter; the only suspense is in waiting to see if something suspenseful will happen. As a romance, however, Kat Martin's tale of 28-year-o
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Kat Martin. HQN, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1422-6
Martin’s seventh Raines of Wind Canyon contemporary western (after Against the Sun) sizzles with unbridled passion and nonstop suspense. Sabrina “Rina” Eckhart, a former stockbroker, decides to travel from her home in Houston to West Texas to see an
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Kat Martin, Author Diamond/Charter $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55773-382-5
Start with a comely, courageous but none too bright heroine, add a hero whose machismo occasionally veers toward sadism, toss in sheer stupidity as a catalyst and you've got Martin's ( Dueling Hearts ) latest romance set in the 1840s. Master of a...
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Kat Martin. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (357p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3382-0
Romance and suspense are evenly matched in this powerful series launch from bestseller Martin (Desert Heat). Beverly Hills interior designer Lane Bishop agrees to help single dad Dylan Brodie remodel his fishing lodge in Alaska. Though she felt the...
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Kat Martin. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3900-6
Martin (Against the Tide) introduces the members of Seattle’s Brodie Operations Security Services (BOSS) in a choppily told romantic thriller about the fierce protectiveness that the strong, handsome heroes feel toward beautiful, complicated women....
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Kat Martin. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3904-4
The uninspired third (after Into the Whirlwind) in bestseller Martin’s uneven romantic thriller series about Brodie Operations Security Services (BOSS) Inc. focuses on professional bounty hunters Luke Brodie and Emma Cassidy. The Seattle duo team up
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Kat Martin. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (395p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4315-7
In this standalone novel of romantic suspense, Martin (Into The Whirlwind) whips together unforgettable characters and a high-octane plot with more twists and turns than a street in San Francisco. Former flight attendant Carly Drake returns to the...
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Kat Martin. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (377p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4317-1
Martin takes readers on a well-plotted roller-coaster ride with her sexy and suspenseful second Texas Trilogy contemporary romantic thriller (after Beyond Reason). Former race car driver Beau Reese is estranged from his father, Stewart, a former...
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Kat Martin. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (364p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4319-5
Bestseller Martin brings her Texas Trilogy contemporary romantic suspense series (Beyond Danger, Beyond Reason) to a hair-raising finish with the gripping tale of a single mother on the run and the Marine veteran who offers her a second chance at...
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Kat Martin. HQN, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-335-54189-5
Martin (Beyond Control) keeps the twists and turns coming in the sensuous and spirited first Maximum Security romantic thriller. Heiress and clothing designer Harper Winston is worried about her brother, Michael, who went missing after embarking on...
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Kat Martin, Author . Mira $7.99 (408p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2642-7
Set in 1854 England, this steamy trilogy opener from bestseller Martin (Heart of Courage
) is an enjoyable mixture of tension and romance. Royal Dewar, the dashing duke of Bransford, promised his dying father that he would marry for money and...
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Kat Martin, Author . Zebra $6.99 (414p) ISBN 978-0-8217-6935-5
Readers who like their romances—and jungles—steamy will gobble up the latest contemporary romance from the unfailingly entertaining Martin (The Fire Inside). With two blonde ex-wives in his past and an arsenal of blonde jokes at his...
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Kat Martin, Author . Pocket Star $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1916-1
Love's flame sputters rather than rages in this nicely paced but forgettable Regency-era romance. Adam Hawthorne, the earl of Blackwood, admits to being intrigued by laughing, lovely Jillian Whitney, but unexpectedly finds himself in the middle...
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Kat Martin, Author . Pocket Star $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1917-8
Martin (Fanning The Flame; Hot Rain) is well known for her sensuous love scenes, but hot sex isn't enough to make this tepid Regency-era romance sizzle. To ferret out a French spy, Captain Caleb Tanner has taken a position as a stable groom at...
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Kat Martin, Author . Zebra $6.99 (380p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7381-9
Young Bostonian Patience Sinclair and her sisters, Hope and Charity, have vowed to have one grand adventure before marrying or settling into a career. For Patience, a season on the western rodeo circuit, researching historic and current female...
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Kat Martin, Author . Zebra $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7382-6
Spicy romance compensates for weak suspense in the third installment of bestseller Martin's Sinclair Sisters series (after Midnight Sun
and Desert Heat
). In the midst of investigating the condemnation of a city apartment building, Manhattan...
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Kat Martin, Author . Mira $7.50 (408p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2199-6
Full of spirited romance and nefarious skullduggery, the second volume of bestseller Martin's Regency trilogy (after The Bride's Necklace
) centers on Capt. Ethan Sharpe, a British privateer determined to punish Harmon Jeffries, Viscount...
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Kat Martin, Author . Mira $7.99 (407p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2207-8
In the fast-paced final volume of Martin's Regency trilogy that began with The Bride's Necklace
, Danielle Duval and Rafael, Duke of Sheffield, meet again in London, five years after scandal ended their engagement. When Rafe investigates and
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Kat Martin, Author . Mira $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2383-9
Martin's latest romance, a convoluted Victorian frolic, is sure to test readers' suspension of disbelief, as well as their patience. Though she's the editor of a gazette devoted to women's cultural and economic issues, Krista Hart'
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Kat Martin, Author . Mira $7.99 (375p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2452-2
In Martin’s newest, the second in her Heart Trilogy (after Heart of Honor
), writer and aristocrat Coralee Whitmore is in mourning for her late sister, Laurel, believed to be a suicide. Brave, impetuous Coralee, however, suspects foul play,...
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Kat Martin, Author . Mira $7.99 (426p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2554-3
Real estate agent Julie Ferris and sister Laura fall asleep on the beach and wake up with no recollection of the hours that passed. Julie suffers splitting headaches; Laura begins to dream about people coming after her. Only later do they entertain...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (339p) ISBN 978-0-312-97564-7
Martin's (Silk and Steel) run-of-the-mill historical set in 1805 England and the Cape Verde Islands is strictly for readers who prefer their plot subordinate to steamy scenes. In lieu of creating a believable relationship between Randall Clayton,...
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Kat Martin, Author . Perseus/Vanguard $14.95 (145p) ISBN 978-1-59315-547-6
In this yuletide yawner, young Teddy Winters is being raised by his grandmother, Lottie, who is stricken with Alzheimer’s. While she seeks a guardian for her grandson, two Dreyerville couples overcome their own obstacles: the Culvers have been
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (375p) ISBN 978-0-312-92878-0
Dominic Edgemont's reputation in late Georgian British society is rather tarnished: aside from rumors of womanizing, he's said to be part gypsy--a rumor that Catherine Barrington, Countess of Arondale, discovers to be true after she is kidnapped by...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (388p) ISBN 978-0-312-95478-9
Determined to match wits with Damien, the scandalous Earl of Falon, Alexa Garrick recklessly consents to meet him at the whist table. More than 90,000 in losses later, Alexa discovers that money isn't what Damien has in mind. Convinced that his...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-96089-6
Jessica Fox has had a thing for Matthew Seaton, Earl of Strickland, since the days when she was the little hellion he spanked for throwing rotten apples at his clean uniform. The daughter of a prostitute, she should by rights have become one too,...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-96243-2
Against a backdrop of glittering Georgian England, an embittered hero seeking revenge kidnaps a feisty heroine. What more could a romance reader want? Deprived of a dukedom and sentenced to hang after his younger brother murders their father and...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $7.99 (354p) ISBN 978-0-312-97281-3
An 18th-century hero, Lucien Raphael Montaine, fifth Marquess of Litchfield, wants to marry an affable woman to have his children, grace his table and not challenge him in any way. Lucien wants to create a life different from his parents': his...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (325p) ISBN 978-0-312-97944-7
Martin's (The Secret; Perfect Sin) strongly drawn portrait of two vulnerable people picking their way through the tangles of love is certain to please her fans. Upon the Earl of Greville's death in 1802, his newly legitimized bastard son, Justin...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.5 (372p) ISBN 978-0-312-95095-8
Martin's ( Gypsy Lord ) steamy historical romance has the appeal of a ride at Disney World: though unbelievable, it is sometimes exhilarating. In 1807 Jocelyn Asbury affects a phony Cockney accent as a member of a London street gang. Her scholar...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $5.99 (372p) ISBN 978-0-312-95774-2
Martin's latest (after Devil's Prize) explores the aftermath of the Mexican-American War and its effect on California circa 1850. The nebulous laws aimed at settling land disputes between the Mexican Californios and the Americanos allowed some...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-96247-0
Martin's latest historical has a relatively fresh setting--the Austria of Francis II (I). Sadly everything else seems very, very old. The dialogue is rife with ""twas"", ""twould"" and ""little minx""; shafts are rigid, lobes are nibbled, emotions...
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Kat Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-312-97002-4
Martin continues her seagoing Regencies with this breast-heaver about tavern girl Brianne Brandy Winters and hard-muscled Marcus Delaine, Lord Hawksmoor and the owner of Hawksmoor Shipping. Brandy, the prettiest bit of baggage in Charleston, S.C.,...
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Linda Lael Miller, Kat Martin, Mary Carter, and Laura Florand. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (448p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3253-3
Bestseller Miller (Big Sky Wedding) anchors an enjoyable holiday collection with plenty of Christmas cheer but limited sparkle. In Carter’s busy “The Christmas Carousel,” auction house owner Georgia refuses to sell her property to handsome investor...
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Kat Martin, Author, Malachi Martin, Author . Mira $7.50 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2125-5
According to the legend of the exquisite diamond-and-pearl bride's necklace belonging to Tory Whitting's noble family, it brings its wearer, if pure of heart, untold happiness—or it could bring untold tragedy. When her lecherous...
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Kat Martin. Kensington, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3679-6
Martin (One Last Kiss) pairs a widowed rancher and a PI in the outstanding romantic thriller that launches her Blood Ties, the Logans series. Eight years before the start of the novel, rancher Kade Logan’s unfaithful wife, Heather, was murdered, and
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Kat Martin. Kensington, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3680-2
Martin’s suspenseful second Blood Ties romance (after The Last Goodnight) sends a couple searching for long-lost riches. Abigail Holland’s treasure-hunting grandfather leaves her his Denver home and a treasure map when he dies—and Abby’s determined...
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Kat Martin. Kensington, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3681-9
Martin blends lusty romance with high-octane military action in her fast-paced third Blood Ties: The Logans contemporary romance (after The Last Mile). Both “sex personified” Green Beret Edge Logan and his feisty, gorgeous colleague Skye Delaney at...
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Kat Martin. Kensington, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-4405-0
Tepid sex scenes and clichéd characters sink this absurd romantic thriller from Martin (The Ghost Illusion). In 1898 Arizona, miner Boris Koblinsky fatally strangles sex worker Jenni Bauters in the Copper Star Saloon after she objects to his rough...
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Kat Martin, Alexandra Ivy, and Rebecca Zanetti. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (360p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5114-5
The three novellas featured in this high-octane romantic suspense anthology form a captivating whole. Martin’s “Against the Heart” introduces Meri Jones, a single mother working to keep her four-year-old daughter, Lily, safe from her abusive ex....
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Kat Martin, Alexandra Ivy, and Rebecca Zanetti. Zebra, $8.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5418-4
When criminal Deke Mitchell robs a Denver, Colo., bank, he leaves a trail of love in his wake in this riveting anthology of interconnected romantic suspense novellas. Ivy’s “Redemption” reunites police detectives Tessa Ralston and Ian Sullivan, the...
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Kat Martin. HQN, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-335-00769-8
Martin revs the power from page one of this fast-paced romantic thriller, the second novel in her Maximum Security series (after The Conspiracy). After Kate Gallagher’s runaway younger sister, Chrissy, is murdered, she’s determined to find the...
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