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Heute eine rein englische Druckfrisch-Ausgabe. (Wie gut, dass die Rabatt-Aktion von The Book Depository noch läuft, was?! *g*)

Julia Quinn: The Smythe-Smith Quartet 01 – Just Like Heaven
Honoria Smythe-Smith is:
A) a really bad violinist
B) still miffed at being nicknamed „Bug“ as a child
C) not in love with her older brother’s best friend
D) all of the above

Marcus Holroyd is:
A) the Earl of Chatteris
B) regrettably prone to sprained ankles
C) not in love with his best friend’s younger sister
D) all of the above

Together they:
A) eat quite a bit of chocolate cake
B) survive a deadly fever and the world’s worst musical performance
C) fall quite desperately in love

It’s Julia Quinn at her best, so you know the answer is . . .

D) all of the above

Elizabeth Boyle: The Widows of Standon 03 – Lord Langley Is Back in Town
Lord Langley and Minerva, Lady Standon, began their faux engagement with three simple rules set down by the baron’s all-too-proper (and utterly unlikely) bride-to-be.
1. No more kissing. The intoxicating kiss Langley stole from her lips still has Minerva aflutter.
2. She will not share his bed. (For if his kiss is that tempting, Minerva doesn’t dare imagine what a night in Langley’s embrace will do to her already addled senses.)
3. No scandals during their engagement. With the infamous Langley back in Town, there is no lack of trouble he can bring to Minerva’s unblemished reputation.
Oh, the wily Lord Langley will keep his word—but that doesn’t mean he won’t use every rakish trick he knows to get Minerva to break her own proper rules, especially once he realizes that this convenient arrangement has led him to the only woman he’s ever loved . . .

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Heute noch die letzten deutschen Neuerscheinungen des Monats sowie jede Menge englische – gleich zweimal vertreten ist Melissa Marr: Mit dem vierten Teil der Sommerlicht-Serie auf Deutsch und ihrem neuen Buch auf Englisch. Und meine Lieblingskatze hat sich auch dazwischen geschmuggelt, obwohl ich ihr gesagt hat, dass sie inmitten von all dem Weiber- und Mädchenkram nix zu suchen hat … ;)

Melissa Marr: Sommerlicht-Serie 04 – Zwischen Schatten und Licht (OT: Radiant Shadows)
Schon seit dem Tag ihrer Geburt hat Ani mächtige Feinde: Sie ist ein Halbling, halb Mensch und halb Dunkelelfe, und gefährdet durch ihre bloße Existenz das Gleichgewicht der Mächte im Elfenreich. Deswegen sollte Devlin sie schon vor Jahren im Auftrag der Königin des Lichts umbringen – dass er damals Anis Leben verschont hat, hält er sorgfältig geheim. Doch als die beiden sich erneut begegnen, fühlen sie sich unwiderstehlich zueinander hingezogen. Ihr erster Kuss setzt Ereignisse in Gang, deren Tragweite keiner von ihnen absehen kann …

Melissa Marr: Graveminder
Before leaving her hometown of Claysville for the comforting anonymity of big city San Diego, twenty-three year-old Rebekkah Barrow attended more funerals than she could count with her grandmother, Maylene. The ritual was always the same: three sips from a small silver flask and whispered instructions into the ear of the recently deceased: Sleep well, and stay where I put you. But when Rebekkah is called home after Maylene is found dead suddenly, mysteriously, violently killed by an unknown intruder it soon becomes apparent that there was good reason for Maylene’s odd traditions. Unbeknownst to most of the residents of Claysville, the small town sits alongside the land of the dead, a shadowy world of simultaneous, and often lawless, eras ruled over by the enigmatic Mr. D. a world from which the dead will return if their graves are not properly minded, the dead who have long been tended to by Graveminder Maylene.
Now, Rebekkah must struggle with more than just her grief. She’s forced to deal with centuries-old dark secrets; a long-ago, unforgotten romance; dead folk who have been called forth to murder; a strange inability to leave the small town she’s been trying to forget; and an unwanted, unavoidable new career as Claysville’s Graveminder . . .

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