Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, et al. Kensington/Zebra, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2486-6
Eight authors celebrate Christmas in Regency England in this heart-warming anthology. Putney’s “She Stoops to Wenchdom” brings Lucinda Richards face to face with her childhood crush, Gregory Kenmore, who thinks himself too cowardly to deserve love....
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Jo Beverley, Author, Mary Jo Putney, Author, Barbara Samuel, Author . Signet Eclipse $14 (375p) ISBN 978-0-451-22039-4
Dragons may rival vampires as a popular fantasy motif and, like vampires, the mythical beasts can provide a theme for romance as well. These four original paranormal novellas mix the two genres, but are far more romantic than fantastic. All the...
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Jo Beverley, Author, Mary Jo Putney, Author, Barbara Samuel, Author . Signet Eclipse $15 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-22902-1
Four engaging novellas bring romance to the legend of the Holy Grail. In Beverley's “The Raven and the Rose,” set in 1153, cloistered novitiate Gledys must find the literal man of her dreams so they can summon the Grail and ensure...
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Topaz $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-40367-4
In the first novel in Penguin USA's new romance line, Putney ( Silk and Secrets ) offers fleshed-out characters but an overload of extraneous historical detail and a lame plot. Clare, a pious Methodist schoolteacher in a small Welsh village in 1814,
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Mary Jo Putney. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (343p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4092-7
Putney begins her Regency-era Rogues Redeemed series (a spin-off of the Lost Lords series) with a man who survived the horrors of war meeting a most unconventional heroine. Several years after nearly being executed as a POW, Will Masterson agrees to
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Mary Jo Putney. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2715-7
Prolific Regency romance author Putney’s fifth Lost Lords installment (after No Longer a Gentleman) shows off her expert storytelling skills. Sarah Clarke-Townsend is with her heavily pregnant twin sister, Mariah, the Duchess of Ashton, when the two
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Mary Jo Putney. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1723-3
Romance and wartime espionage mix delightfully in the fourth Lost Lords Regency (after Nowhere Near Respectable) from bestseller Putney. Experienced secret agent Cassie Fox is sent to France at the height of the Napoleonic wars in search of the long-
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Mary Jo Putney, Kensington/Zebra, $6.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1722-6
Putney's third Lost Lords Regency (after 2010's Never Less than a Lady) is rich with historical detail and multifaceted characters. Anglo-Hindu Lady Kiri Lawford is about to accept a proposal from an English gentleman when she learns that his racist,
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Berkley Publishing Group $6.99 (335p) ISBN 978-0-425-17428-9
Known for her historical romances (The Wild Child, etc.), Putney successfully moves into contemporary fiction. Kate Corsi and Patrick Donovan, divorced 10 years ago, are reunited by the death of Kate's father, Sam, who was killed in an explosion at...
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Ballantine Books $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-43315-2
Lady Meriel Grahame, the eighth heroine in Putney's Fallen Angels series, has lived in a world of self-imposed silence since the night of violence in colonial India that claimed her parents' lives. Deemed mad by her guardian uncles (one good, one...
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Ballantine Books $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-43335-0
Nineteenth-century China, England and Scotland are the settings for Putney's continuing saga of the Renbourne twins, Dominic and Kyle, begun in The Wild Child. There, Kyle handed over his unwanted betrothed, Meriel (a match arranged at birth), to...
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Signet Book $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-18864-9
On his return from the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Kenneth Wilding rides to Sutterton Hall to claim his inheritance, only to discover that his father has ruined the estate. The only way to salvage it and provide a dowry for his sister is to accept his...
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Topaz $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-40598-2
Originally published in 1990 as The Rogue and the Runaway, this Lord Robert Andreville novel has been substantially expanded. (Apr.)
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Mary Jo Putney, Author . Berkley $7.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-18301-4
The shooting of a film forces a divorcing couple to confront their conflicts in historical author Putney's second contemporary romance (following The Burning Point). Actress Raine Marlowe needs her estranged husband, action hero Kenzie Scott, to
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Onyx Books $6.99 (381p) ISBN 978-0-451-40301-8
Set in the Near East of the Great Game, this sequel to Putney's Silk and Shadows switches focus from Mikhal Khanauri and Sara St. James to the adventures of Sara's cousin Lord Ross Carlisle. Carlisle, now Marquess of Kilburn and heir to the duchy of
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Onyx Books $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-40244-8
This disappointing historical romance serves up a plot hinging on amnesia--a hopelessly overworked gimmick--and a distressing scenario of abuse that even Putney's ( Dearly Beloved ) substantial doses of Christian piety cannot disguise. The effect is
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Topaz $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-40185-4
Putney ( The Diabolical Baron ) sugarcoats the unsavory premise of this story about two people who, thrown together by an accident of fate, heal each other from the wounds of childhood. In 1799 Scotland, Gervase Brandelin, the victim of a sexually...
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Mary Jo Putney, Author Ivy Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-00017-5
Hoping to exploit the success of Putney's Fallen Angels series, Fawcett is launching its first rack-size hardcover romance--small enough to fit on the mass market shelves at the local supermarket but durable enough to cost more. There were...
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Mary Jo Putney, Author . Zebra $6.99 (340p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0328-1
The enchanting first Lost Lords novel confirms bestseller Putney (The Marriage Spell
) as a major force in historical romance. In early 19th-century northern England, Mariah Clarke inherits beautiful Hartley Manor. George Burke, Hartley's...
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Mary Jo Putney, Author . Del Rey $24.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-345-47691-3
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ear the start of this diverting romantic fantasy set in 1753, the third Guardians novel from bestseller Putney (after 2005’s Stolen Magic
), Nikolai Gregorio, a handsome pirate captain operating in the Mediterranean, kidnaps pretty red-haired
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Mary Jo Putney, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-345-44916-0
Love and magic prove to be comfortable bedfellows in this enchanting mid-18th-century romance from Putney (A Twist of Fate
; The Bartered Bride
), which launches a new series focused on the Guardians, a group of English and Scottish folk who possess
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Mary Jo Putney, Author . Jove $7.50 (340p) ISBN 978-0-515-13545-9
In contrast to the rewarding emotional intensity of Putney's previous romance, The Spiral Path, her latest stumbles under the weight of predictable plotting and a romance that fails to ignite. Corporate attorney Val Covington resolves to turn...
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Mary Jo Putney, Author . Ballantine $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-43705-1
This final volume in a popular trilogy (The Wild Child; The China Bride) is a rich and realistic 19th-century historical romance. Gavin Elliott, captain of his trading company's flagship, has been traveling the East Indies since the death of his
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Mary Jo Putney et al. Kensington, $15 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61773-923-1
Eight romance authors (collectively known as the Word Wenches) walk into a Regency-era ballroom and wreak fabulous, shimmering holiday mischief all over the place. The Dowager Countess of Holbourne is hosting an extravagant Christmas ball, and the...
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M. J. Putney, Author, Mary Jo Putney, Author . Del Rey $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-47689-0
In bestseller Putney's spellbinding second romantic fantasy (after 2004's A Kiss of Fate
), Earl of Falconer, Simon Malmain, chief enforcer of the Guardian Council, which oversees the use of magic in 18th-century Britain, has been turned...
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Mary Jo Putney. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4094-1
Putney continues her Regency-era Rogues Redeemed series (begun in Once a Soldier) with a page-turner tale of childhood friends reunited during the War of 1812. Lord Audley, Gordon to his friends, is hired by the British family of a widow, Callista...
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Mary Jo Putney. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (325p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4096-5
Putney’s third Regency Rogues Redeemed historical (after Once a Rebel) sizzles with passion and adventure. Gabriel Hawkins Vance is dismissed from the Royal Navy after abandoning his post to rescue a midshipman, but he continues his seafaring career,
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Mary Jo Putney. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (376p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4810-7
Putney’s exciting fourth Rogues Redeemed Regency series (after Once a Scoundrel) contrasts harsh trauma with sweet domesticity. Suzanne Duval is living in a London boardinghouse when Col. Simon Duval, a cousin of her late husband, arrives at her...
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Mary Jo Putney. Zebra, $8.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4811-4
Putney continues her Regency-era Rogues Redeemed series with this enthralling fifth installment (after Once a Spy), about a pair of outcasts who find comfort with one another. While attending a London ball, Lucas Mandeville, Lord Foxton, overhears...
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Mary Jo Putney. Zebra, $8.99 Mass Market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4812-1
A woman falls for her deceased sister’s former fiancé in Putney’s dull sixth Rogues Redeemed romance (after Once Dishonored), set in 1800s Scotland. Kai Ramsey returns to Thorsay Island to take over his ailing grandfather’s responsibilities as Laird.
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Mary Jo Putney. Kensington, $16.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-4967-4663-4
Bestseller Putney (Once a Laird) is writing for her longtime fans these days, setting up expected story pins and bowling them down cleanly, albeit from very short range. In this series-starting Regency paranormal, she adds some supernatural conceits:
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Madeline Hunter, Sabrina Jeffries, and Mary Jo Putney. Kensington, $15.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3129-6
This intricately woven trio of Regency romance novellas makes for cozy reading during the holiday season. Hunter’s “The Unexpected Gift” finds Jenna Waverly closing her inn and sending most of the servants away, hoping for a brief Christmastime...
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Mary Putney, Madeline Hunter, and Sabrina Jeffries. Kensington, $15.95 trade paper (314p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2028-3
Kidnapping is the theme of this fun trilogy of holiday Regency romances. In Hunter’s “A Christmas Abduction,” Caroline Dunham kidnaps Adam Prescott, Baron Thornhill, planning to force him to marry her sister, whom she believes he seduced and...
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Mary Jo Putney. Kensington, $17.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4967-5125-6
Peril and the paranormal come together in Putney’s dramatic second Dangerous Gifts Regency (after Silver Lady). Tasked with escorting Britain’s ambassador and his wife back home from Paris, Cade Tremayne, an adopted son of Lord and Lady Tremayne, is
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