Hello everyone and welcome back to Romancelandia where there’s a dude for every girl (and guy) out there. Bad boys, boys-next-door and the boy-who-got-away. We have nerds and shifters. Pro-athletes and cowboys. Billionaire boys and those of the blue-collar variety. We have hot-docs and hot-cops and right in the back there we’ve even got your best friend’s brother! So come on in this September, the bush is blooming and the weather is getting warmer and I’m throwing open the windows down the rabbit hole. The Beatles are crooning ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and there are jugs of Aperol Spritz to get everyone in the mood!
And, of course, books!
I have books from down under authors and an overseas selection for your spring reading. As per usual, if you see anything you like, just click on the cover to check them out.
Australian Romance Authors
Runaway to the Outback
by Nicole Flockton
When overworked supermodel Pandora Sebastian flees a taxing photoshoot and takes refuge in Bunya Junction’s only pub—all while dressed as a bride—the locals are unexpectedly welcoming. Jonas Carruthers thinks he’s seen it all—until Pandora bursts into his pub and his life. She’s everything he doesn’t expect her to be: kind, compassionate, hardworking, and interested in him.
As much as she wants to stay hidden in Bunya Junction, Pandora needs to face the press and wear the consequences. Jonas has been great, but there’s no way he’ll step up to support her choices. Or will he?
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The Buchanan Girls
by Emily Madden
Sydney, 1941: Olive and Ivy may be identical twins, but they couldn’t be more different. While Olive is focused on marrying a man appropriate to her station, Ivy wants to do more, to be more. Joining the Australian Women’s Army Service is the perfect chance for her to escape her family obligations and make a real difference in the world. She doesn’t expect serving her country to lead to romance … or devastating betrayal and unthinkable grief.
Sydney, 2008: Escaping her husband’s betrayal and an impossible personal loss, Madeline returns home to Sydney to nurse her broken heart. As she settles into her new routine, it’s too easy to consider never returning to New York and her old life. But her husband won’t give up on what they have so easily, and Madeline can’t ignore his messages reminding her of why they fell in love in the first place. With her grandmother’s support, Madeline has to decide if forgiveness means reconciliation. But is the biggest betrayal yet to come?
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Say You’ll Be Mine
by R. J. Groves
Jannette Tanner is ready for the next step of her life plan – a baby. But when she’s called back to her family farm to help her brother, she suddenly finds herself unsure of her plans. Especially when she sees her brother’s best friend for the first time after seventeen years and discovers those secret childhood feelings for him have only grown stronger.
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International Romance Authors
The Lights on Knockbridge Lane
by Roan Parrish
I’ve been looking forward to this one for months given that it’s Harlequin’s first ever mainstream, paperback male/male category romance! Hats off to them and to Roan Parrish.
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Can one man’s crowded, messy life fill another man’s empty heart?
Raising a family was always Adam Mills’ dream, although solo parenting and moving back to tiny Garnet Run certainly were not. After a messy breakup, Adam is doing his best to give his young daughter the life she deserves — including accepting help from their new, reclusive neighbour to fulfil her Christmas wish.
Though the little house may not have “the most lights ever,” the Mills home begins to brighten as handsome Wes Mobray spends more time there and slowly sheds his protective layers. But when the eye-catching house ends up in the news, Wes has to make a choice: hide from the darkness of his unusual past or embrace the light of a future — and a family — with Adam.
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Mile High With A Vampire
by Lyndsay Sands
Jet Lassiter likes being a pilot for Argeneau Inc. Perks included travelling to exotic locations and meeting interesting people, even if they are the blood-sucking kind. He’s living the good life, until his plane goes down in the mountains and four of his passengers are gravely injured. They need blood to heal … and Jet is the only source.
Quinn Peters never wanted to be immortal. Once a renowned heart surgeon, she was turned against her will and now she has to drink blood to survive. Before she can ask how her “life” can get any worse, she’s in a plane crash. But hungry vampires are the least of their worries — the crash wasn’t an accident, and someone is trying to kill Quinn. Will she and Jet find their happily ever after as life mates, or will her assassin find her first
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Dance Away With Me
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow Tess Hartsong takes off for Runaway Mountain. In this small town high in the Tennessee mountains, surrounded by nature, she hopes to outrun her heartbreak and find the solace she needs to heal.
But instead of peace and quiet, she encounters an enigmatic artist with a craving for solitude, a fairy-tale sprite with too many secrets, a helpless infant, a couple of curious teens, and a town suspicious of outsiders, especially one as headstrong as Tess. Just as headstrong is Ian North, a difficult, gifted man with a tortured soul a man who makes Tess question everything.
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Amy’s Favourite of the Month!
As an extra treat each month, I usually recommend one of my fave reads/authors to you. This month I’m choosing NYT and USA Today bestselling author Erin Nicholas. I adore Erin’s voice, her hot blue-collar heroes and her sassy, take-no-prisoners heroines. She writes sexy and funny and has several amazing series you can dive straight into. A lot of her books are set in New Orleans and in the bayou and completely immerse you in the Louisiana culture, which includes plenty of southern steam — in more ways than one.
It’s hard to choose just one but definitely start at the beginning of one of her series and for now I’ll recommend you start with her Boys of the Big Easy series – Going Down Easy. And then just keep going!
As far as flings go, single dad Gabe Trahan is pretty sure that Addison Sloan is his best bet. Once a month, Addison comes to New Orleans and then … It. Is. On. Until Addison returns to New York, it’s just hot, happily-no-strings-attached sex. And beignets. And jazz. But lately for Gabe, it isn’t nearly enough.
Sure, maybe Addison’s gotten a bit hooked on Gabe. After all, who can resist a guy who’s so sexy, so charming, and so … available? But maybe he’s too available for her right now. Addison’s just moved to New Orleans, and relationships are definitely off the table. Besides, guys always bail when they learn her secret: she’s a single mom.
Only Gabe’s not running. Worse, he’s thrilled …
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That’s it for September — catch you in Romancelandia next month. Until then, happy reading!
About Amy
Amy Andrews is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling Aussie author who has written eighty plus contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets. She’s sold three million books and been translated into over a dozen languages including manga. She has won three Ruby awards and is a triple RITA finalist.
In her other life, she was a paediatric intensive care nurse for twenty-one years. Amy lives near the sea with her husband of thirty years.
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