New Releases by Anne Stuart

A charming visit with the Rohan family as true love blossoms in their midst.... Jenny Lancaster already knew about the notorious Rohans, so joining their extended family for Christmas should have brought no surprises. As a governess, she’d hardly be expected to spend time with the family, and she could enjoy a quiet holiday on her own. But she hadn’t counted on the madness that followed the Rohans wherever they went. And she definitely hadn’t counted on Brat Rohan, the blackest of black sheep, teasing her, toying with her, flirting with her. She didn’t believe in love at first sight. But Brat Rohan was in the midst of teaching her otherwise.

Who would have thought she could fall in love with Santa Claus? Dr. Eloise Pollard was looking forward to her Christmas wedding. Sort of. The last thing she expects is to be kidnapped by a desperate man in a Santa suit, a man with a bullet hole in his side and an attitude to match, a cop killer on the run. He’s ready to set her free but she can’t leave an injured man untended. And at least he manages to ruin the atrocious wedding dress she was being forced to wear—she owes him for that. She believes him when he tells her he’s an innocent man. But with half the Boston police force after them, it’s getting harder and harder to hide out. All they can do is get out of the city and find help. And ignore their growing attraction. James Fitzpatrick is a man on the run. The crooked cops are out to get him, and he needs to find out the truth behind a certain jewel robbery, but suddenly he’s got this feisty bride keeping him company. Thing were getting worse and worse. Particularly because he can’t keep his eyes, his mind, and his hands off her. It’s definitely not a good time to fall in love.

he relieve a very bad man of his Nazi-looted treasures, he’ll give his long-lost father’s reputation a black eye. And everything is going perfectly, except that Isabel Linden is distracting him from his goal. After all, there’s no such thing as love at first sight. It’s going to be a very long night.

The rain and murders just keep coming… When Rachel Middleton marries the perfect new man and moves with her teenaged daughter to the small town of Silver Falls, she believes she''s finally found serenity. Until the murders begin. Until her husband''s brother returns home. All too soon her bright hopes for a future are crashing down around her. Caleb Middleton has unfinished business. He''s unsettling, fascinating, and intent on shaking the foundations of her life. Before someone else dies, she''ll have to decide who she can trust—her perfect husband or his dangerous brother. About the Author: ANNE STUART has won every major award in the romance field and appeared on the bestseller list of the NY Times, Publisher''s Weekly, and USA Today, as well as being featured in Vogue, People Magazine, and Entertainment Tonight. Anne lives by a lake in the hills of Northern Vermont with her fabulous husband.

Kelly Malone thought she’d forgotten all about bad boy Samuel One-Horse Watson, her childhood crush, until she runs into him in need of her services as a midwife. He doesn’t want her around, but he’s drawn to her as he was so long ago, and he needs her. And she’s not about to desert her patient, even if it turns out to be a tame buffalo about to give birth to a white calf. But too many people are threatening the upcoming blessed event, and the two of them are cut off from help—they’ve only got each other. Sometimes that’s enough.

Samantha hates blind dates, and as the only over-age virgin in the state of California, she has no use for men. Not until she sees Gideon. Gideon is devilishly handsome for a reason—he comes straight from the 347th level of hell, and unless he accomplishes his ordained task he’ll end up even deeper. A woman’s chastity is a sty in the Devil’s eye. It was Gideon’s task to take care of that little problem. Too bad that Samantha arouses feelings in him he’s never felt before. What’s an imp of Satan to do? Leave Samantha alone and take his punishment like a man? Or take the beautiful model to bed and move up a level or two? And why is his boss dressing like an extra from Pirates of the Caribbean?

The stunning finale to RITA Award-winner Anne Stuart’s The Ice Series brings us back to Japan, where deadly machinations have an odd couple in their crosshairs. In the wake of a failed love affair, Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo. She’s expecting to cry on her sister’s shoulder, then spend a couple months blowing off steam in Japan. Instead, she’s snatched away on the back of a motorcycle, narrowly avoiding a grisly execution attempt meant for her sister and brother-in-law. Her rescuer Reno is the Committee’s most unpredictable agent. They’d met once before and the attraction was strange—opposites in more way than one—but electric. Now Reno and Jilly are pawns in a deadly tangle of assassination attempts, kidnappings, and prisoner swaps that could put their steamy partnership on ice. Previously published.

Carolina Cunningham is not the woman she pretends to be. As owner of the Queen of Diamonds Saloon, she hides her innocence behind a tough exterior, and she has no time for a gunslinger turned sheriff who’s only interested in killing. And in her. O’Malley is in town for one reason only—to kill Little Billy Gaither, the notorious outlaw and murderer. Falling in love with Carolina only makes things more complicated, since she’s number one on Billy’s hitlist. Somehow O’Malley’s got to keep her alive, kill the monstrous Billy, and talk her into lowering her defenses. They could be happy together, if Carolina will just give it a chance. And if Little Billy Gaither doesn’t kill them first.

Megan McGraw and her best friend Nadja are so tired of waiting for the right man to arrive that they decide a little magic spell might hurry things along. With the help of candles, incantations and an oversized snowman, Megan summons forth the impossibly handsome actor from her favorite movie, kissing the icy face of her snowman to seal the deal. When he shows up a few days later, she is horrified to think the spell actually worked, particularly when she finds she is far more interested in his bad-tempered screenwriter friend, John James O’Leary. Meggie doesn’t believe in spells any more than she believes in true love and happy endings. But kissing Frosty seems to be making all those unlikely things come true. (Previously published in the New Year’s Resolution: Husband anthology from Harlequin Books)

Marike is a satisfied woman. She has her business making creative maternity clothes, she has her passion helping pregnant women in need, and she has her absurd house outside Chicago. She doesn’t need someone like Will Lambert upsetting the peaceful flow of her days. Will is a frustrated man. Working a high profile job in Chicago just doesn’t feed his soul, but he’s going through the motions, doing what he’s supposed to do, until he runs across Marike, her bevy of pregnant helpers, and her tumbled-down brownstone. Will needs some shaking up, and Marike is just the woman to do it. He’s just got to make sure she gets shaken up as well. Because it doesn’t take much for Will to decide that Marike is The One. Convincing her is the challenge.... (Previously published in the Valentine Babies anthology)

Fragile Laura Fitzpatrick has lived her entire life with the certainty of an early death, and her wealthy family hasn’t been able to do anything to change her fate. Over the years, she’s come to think of death as a friend, a long-lost companion she is bound to meet again someday. But she isn’t prepared to meet Death himself, human for a short time, up in the snowy mountains of Colorado. She only knows he is the one she loves, the one she is waiting for. He had never been so bemused by a gentle human. All he can do is stop everything, life and death and time itself, to discover everything about her, knowing in the end he would have to let her go. But why, when she looks at him, isn’t she afraid?

Emma Milsom thought a job with director/playwright Teddy Winters would help her put her life back together. She hadn’t counted on the presence of British actor Sebastian Brand in the dilapidated old theater. Sebastian was the foremost actor in horror films, adept at playing monsters of every sort, and his behavior in real life wasn’t much of an improvement. Rumors of accidents and death followed him, and Emma should have had enough sense to keep her distance. But Sebastian was mesmerizing, and just as obsessed with her. As the accidents began to escalate, Emma didn’t know whom to trust. She just knew it shouldn’t be Sebastian. Was he trying to seduce her, or kill her? Or perhaps both. (Previously published in a Silhouette Shadows anthology)

Shannon Donnelly despised the divorce lawyer who ruined her sister’s life, but fate kept throwing them together, fate in the form of Saint Valentine himself and his frenemy, Eros. The two supposedly mythical creatures have a bet going–can Shannon Donnelly find true love with Patrick Lockwood, the bane of her existence, by Valentine’s Day? It takes a fair amount of supernatural interference, including a trip to Maine and an unexpected blizzard, but things still aren’t falling into place. Who would have thought humans would be so stubborn?

Emma O’Bannion has a crush on the mysterious Frenchman who lives above her, and for Valentine’s Day she decides to be his secret admirer. There’s one problem—Luc is a retired agent, and sees danger everywhere, particularly in a bouquet of roses and a box of poisoned chocolates. It’s easy enough for him to discover who’s stalking him, easy for him to kidnap her and find out exactly who she’s working for. Except that apparently her only motive is a misplaced crush. Too bad that he’s starting to feel the same way.

What if the Sheriff of Nottingham was actually the hero? Everyone knew that the High Sheriff of Huntingdon was a madman, the son of a witch and the devil himself. His proxy wedding to a young nun is simply another appalling deed, not to be wondered at, until the bride herself arrives, a flaxen-haired girl with a resolve to equal the Sheriff’s own. True love never runs smoothly, particularly when there’s a witch, a vicious killer, and the Sheriff’s own behavior to deal with. But Sister Elspeth is strong enough to deal with all of it, and win her husband’s love in the end. There are times when even a madman can be tamed. Warning: this novella contains violence and strong sexual content. Not for the faint of heart.

The interview with the anonymous assassin is the coup of Madison’s short journalistic career. The man is heartless, soulless, and determinedly seductive, and she leaves feeling shaken. Constantine should never have given in to the pressure to speak to the reporter, but once he does, he is caught by her innocent sensuality, so much so that he can’t forget her. Scaling her balcony on a rainy Paris night is even more suicidal, but it doesn’t matter. He has to have her. Just as she has to have him. Love is not in the cards for his broken soul, but he didn’t count on someone like Madison breaking down his resolve, his barriers, his very life. Happy endings aren’t for the likes of him. That doesn’t mean he won’t fight for it. Warning: this novella contains violence and strong sexual content. Not for the faint of heart.

Maggie Brown is sensible, responsible, and worried. Her irresponsible sister has run off with a revolutionary, their feckless mother swears she’s dying, and Maggie has no choice but to brave the forests of San Pablo to reunite her family. To do so, she needs Ben Frazer, a rough and tumble soldier of fortune who seems a little too interested in Maggie and has a tendency to head in the wrong direction. Throw in a counter-revolutionary named El Gallo Loco and life isn’t nearly as sensible as she thought it was. Ben’s doing his best to throw her off the trail. She’s annoying, straight-laced and absolutely irresistible, and the sooner she’s back in the States, the better. Unfortunately Miss Magnolia Brown is ready to fall off her pedestal, and who better to catch her but Ben?

A governess is not a murder investigator. To new governess Lorna MacDougal, that seemed a safe and reasonable assumption. Until her employer, the grand matriarch of the Cameron family sees fit to change all the rules of childcare. The woman seriously expects Lorna to discover who murdered her husband. The family''s three sons are obvious suspects: Stephen with his shallow wife, Gentle Charles who wouldn''t hurt a fly, and the most dangerous of them all, Alexander Cameron—the black sheep of the family and the most irresistible man Lorna has ever met. But no one is as they seem, and her worst enemy is the one man she can''t trust. The mystery deepens until death follows, and Lorna can''t decide if she''s in love with a monster or a wronged man. Or whether she''ll be the next one to die. Author Bio: Anne Stuart has won every major award in the romance field and appeared on the bestseller list of the NYTimes, Publisher’s Weekly, and USA Today, as well as being featured in Vogue, People Magazine, and Entertainment Tonight. Anne lives by a lake in the hills of Northern Vermont with her fabulous husband.

Jeannie MacPherson left her ice cream empire to find peace on a rustic Maine island. Instead she found irascible Matthew Connelly, recovering from a suspicious gunshot wound. It didn’t help that he was drop-dead gorgeous. Or that he was just as reluctantly attracted to her as she was to him. Connelly had secrets, and Jeannie didn’t trust him. But that wasn’t enough to keep her away from him. Or to keep her from following him when he left without warning. Neither of them wanted to fall in love. But sometimes fate has other plans.

It’s a long, hot summer, and when Caleb Spenser comes to town, everyone knows he’s trouble. No man should be that good-looking, and his sinfully sexy smile is enough to melt even the strongest backbone. Good girl Jassy Turner doesn’t know what to do with the outsider who’s come into their midst, infiltrating the very proper Turner family and setting his sights directly on her. After a lifetime of good behavior, she’s more than ready to fall from her pedestal, straight into Caleb’s bed. But there are dark secrets lurking in the sultry atmosphere. As summer heats up and the heat lightning builds, so do the desire and the danger, and all Jassy can do is hang on for dear life, wondering if she’s made the worst mistake of her life. Or the best mistake ever.

Rachel Connery has come to the Foundation of Being to find the truth about her mother’s death--what has happened to all her money, and what secrets lie behind the smiling, placid members of what Rachel considers a cult? Luke Bardell is as bad as a man can be--a liar, swindler, convicted murderer and cult leader. So why is she so attracted to him? There’s evil at the Foundation, but Rachel can’t tell where it’s coming from--the holier than thou members, or Luke Bardell himself. Luke is involved in something very wrong...but is he the real source of evil? And is she a total fool to believe that he’s someone worth loving?

When Maggie Bennett is sent to rescue accused murderer Mack (Snake) Pulaski, she doesn’t realize the trouble she’s getting into. Not only do they have to dodge drug lords, organized crime and an unhinged gun for hire on their international journey, they have to deal with the unwanted and unavoidable fact that they’re falling in love when they simply have no time for it. Now they just have to stay alive long enough to do something about it.

Alys de Lancie is determined to save her sister Claire when she’s pledged to marry the notorious and powerful Simon of Navarre, even if it means marrying the scarred and betwitching man herself. Simon of Navarre has schemes of his own, and he has no interest in the bride his evil lord has chosen for him. She’s supposed to be terrified of him, but instead they draw closer and closer, when he has no time to waste on a helpless female. But Alys is far from helpless, and he can’t resist, even though his nefarious schemes might all be for naught. But then, who could fall in love with a monster?

Ghislaine has one goal–to kill the man who abandoned her to the horrors of the French Revolution. When poison fails to do the trick, she finds herself kidnapped by her nemesis and dragged across war-torn Europe, and while her need for vengeance stays strong, so does her re-awakened passion for the wicked, beautiful man. Nicholas Windham has no interest in morality, politics or guilt. Ghislaine, on the other hand, captivates him, and her justified murderous streak is almost a beguiling as her sweet body. He just never expected to fall in love with her. Can two enemies find peace in each other’s arms? Or will the wounds of the past destroy their happy ending?

BONUS MATERIAL AND RECIPES INCLUDED. Next stop: Hell. Unless . . . He was a driven, heartless businessman, trampling anyone who got in his way, until one night when his grinchy-heart exploded. Now, he''s back on earth with a second chance to avoid his fate. His task? To right three of his wrongs. Fail, and he''s not going to like how his story ends. All her fault . . . Carrie Alexander lives a quiet life in a tiny town in Minnesota, recovering from a broken heart and her guilt. She''d been fool enough to fall in love with her heartless boss, and she''d not only been kicked to the curb, she''d brought down the whole town with her. She''s doing everything she can to make up for the disaster she wrought, and she has no time for the stranger who appears at her door on a wintry Thanksgiving night--no matter how angelically beautiful he is. He''s going to need a miracle . . . Healing the town is a relatively simple matter. Fixing lost souls will be a piece of cake. But how the hell can Gabriel heal the woman he''s fallen in love with, knowing he''s going to abandon her once again? RITA Award Winning Title! About the Author: Anne Stuart recently celebrated her forty years as a published author. She has won every major award in the romance field and appeared on the bestseller list of the NYTimes, Publisher''s Weekly, and USA Today, as well as being featured in Vogue, People Magazine, and Entertainment Tonight. Anne lives by a lake in the hills of Northern Vermont with her fabulous husband.

A dangerous man . . . The man who''d broken into Elizabeth Hardy''s Colorado house was no lost ski bum. Her inexplicable and intuitive powers, those unwanted gifts, were always vague, but she knew that much. Sam Oliver was tall, dark, and deadly--a liar and a trickster, and she''d finally found a man she couldn''t ignore. Off limits . . . She didn''t look like a fraud and a liar, and after years in Army Intelligence Col. Sam Oliver should know. Instead Elizabeth Hardy was a pale, vulnerable-looking waif, though he didn''t buy her innocent act. He''d always made it a rule to keep his hands off his targets. Some rules were made to be broken. Unanswered questions . . . With a young housewife missing and presumed dead, there were no simple answers to any number of questions. Why did the missing woman look exactly like the also-missing daughter of the secretary of state? Why did Elizabeth want to trust him, why did Sam suddenly want to believe in psychics? For God''s sake, why couldn''t they resist each other? And the biggest question of all: would they survive to find out what was going on between them? Or was all hell about to break loose? RITA FINALIST! \"Elizabeth, Oliver, and danger. Certainly a combination you ought not miss!\" -Maldivian Book Reviews About the Author: Anne Stuart recently celebrated over forty years as a published author. She has won every major award in the romance field and appeared on the bestseller list of the NYTimes, Publisher''s Weekly, and USA Today, as well as being featured in Vogue, People Magazine, and Entertainment Tonight. Anne lives by a lake in the hills of Northern Vermont with her fabulous husband.

Silver Carlysle has no illusions about the cutthroat movie business. She lives over her mega-star mother’s garage, avoids parties, and writes sharp-edged articles about Hollywood bastards like movie executive Rafe McGinnis, who makes brainless movies, pushes people around, and still manages to charm everyone he meets. Everyone but her. Rafe McGinnis wants to entertain people and make money, but he’s working in a business where getting stabbed in the back is just part of the day, so while he plays fair, he takes no prisoners. When a movie star’s know-nothing brat of a kid writes an exposé that undercuts his latest project, he goes after her the way he’s gone after everybody else who’s tried to knife him. But Silver and Rafe soon discover they’ve underestimated each other, and their battle rages hotter, right into his bed. Falling in love with a man like him is the last thing Silver wants, and Rafe can’t afford distractions. But fate has its own revenge in store. One of Anne Stuart’s most popular Harlequin American Romances, now republished!

Left broke and all but homeless by her shiftless husband, widow Margaret Jaffrey turns to his family in hope of a better life for her daughter . . . until she realizes the decaying family mansion in Louisiana comes complete with a domineering matriarch, a drunken uncle, and a madman locked in the attic. The madman in question is Peter Delacroix, and he doesn''t seem that crazy. In fact, Margaret is starting to find him irresistible. But if Peter isn''t really unstable, then why did he confess to a murder he didn''t commit? And which one of her new-found in-laws hides a lethal streak? Most of all, how will she keep her daughter safe when she''s falling in love with a very dangerous man? Author Bio: Anne Stuart recently celebrated over forty years as a published author. She has won every major award in the romance field and appeared on the bestseller list of the NYTimes, Publisher''s Weekly, and USA Today, as well as being featured in Vogue, People Magazine, and Entertainment Tonight. Anne lives by a lake in the hills of Northern Vermont with her fabulous husband.

A strong, resilient woman who learned to survive in a world of betrayal. Emma Cadbury had been an innocent, a whore, a charity worker and a surgeon. She chose a life without love until she saved a dying soldier in a charity ward. A scarred soldier who fought to redeem himself from the horrors he’d committed. Brandon Rohan had lost himself to drugs and degradation, wanting to die, and only one person could save him. But she’d disappeared. A love neither of them wants, and a passion so strong it could burn down the world. Now they’ve come together again, but he doesn’t remember, and she doesn’t want to. But someone is trying to kill her, and Brandon is the one man who can save her. u200bu200bu200bu200bu200bu200bu200bEngland in 1840, where no one is what they seem.

Something''s coming. And it involves a man. New age shopkeeper Sybil Richardson loves Christmas - she just doesn''t like the impossibly sexy, incurably grumpy professor who''s come to the tiny town of Danbury, Vermont to debunk all her dearly held beliefs. She doesn''t like his suspicious nature, and she sure as hell doesn''t like the fact that he makes her dissolve into a puddle of lust no matter how much he annoys her. Nick Fitzsimmons thinks most new age beliefs are nonsense. He has no need to linger in a one-horse town with no cell service and unreliable wifi, but for some reason, he can''t make himself leave the ridiculously gullible woman who is trying so hard to get rid of him. Christmas is coming, and he knows what he wants under his tree. He just has to convince Sybil that she wants him, too. Anne Stuart recently celebrated her forty years as a published author. She has won every major award in the romance field and appeared on the bestseller list of the NY Times, Publisher''s Weekly, and USA Today, as well as being featured in Vogue, People Magazine, and Entertainment Tonight. Anne lives by a lake in the hills of Northern Vermont with her fabulous husband.