[Druckfrisch] 21. Juni 2011

Auch heute wieder gibts jede Menge deutsche und englische druckfrische (Frauen-)Bücher. Darunter diverse Highlights, z.B. die Fortsetzung von Gayle Formans »Wenn ich bleibe«, Teil 4 der Rohan-Serie von Anne Stuart, ein neuer Duran, ein neuer Rough-Rider von Lorelei James als E-Book sowie das neue Buch von Megan Hart (das mich überhaupt nicht anmacht!) und ein neuer Stephanie-Plum-Roman.

Gayle Forman: Mia und Adam 02 – Lovesong (OT: Where She Went)
Das Ende seiner großen Liebe zu Mia lässt Adam fast am Leben zerbrechen. Ruhelos, leer, ausgebrannt fühlt er sich, trotz seiner sensationellen Erfolge als Rockstar. Auch wenn er seinen Gefühlen auf der millionenfach verkauften CD Collateral Damage Ausdruck verliehen hat, ist der Schmerz über den Verlust von Mia noch immer zu stark, als dass er ihn ertragen könnte. Als Adam von einem Konzert erfährt, das Mia, inzwischen gefeierte Cellistin, in New York gibt, will er nur eines: sie wiedersehen. Noch in derselben Nacht finden sie den Mut, sich auszusprechen, sich auszusöhnen und sich zu trennen, um eigene Wege zu gehen. Da hört er, wie eine Stimme seinen Namen ruft …

Joyce Maynard: Der Duft des Sommers (OT: Labor Day)
Eine Kleinstadt in New Hampshire: Adele, liebenswert, sensibel und seit ihrer Scheidung todunglücklich, lebt mit ihrem 13-jährigen Sohn Henry völlig zurückgezogen in einem kleinen Haus, das sie nur selten verlässt. Bis Henry sie zu einem Einkaufstrip überredet, der ihrer beider Leben für immer verändern wird. Denn im Supermarkt wird Henry von einem Mann angesprochen, der offensichtlich verletzt ist. Er bittet um Hilfe, und Adele nimmt ihn mit nach Hause. Dort stellt sich heraus, dass Frank, ihr überaus höflicher und rücksichtsvoller Besucher, ein entflohener Sträfling ist. Für ein langes, heißes Septemberwochenende gewähren die beiden ihm Zuflucht. Und während Henry in Frank den lange vermissten Vaterersatz findet, entwickelt sich zwischen Frank und Adele eine zarte, innige Liebe. Eine Liebe, für die sie einen hohen Preis zahlen werden …

Jim C. Hines: Rotkäppchens Rache (OT: Red Hood’s Revenge)
Roudettes Geschichte ist im Grunde einfach. Ein roter Umhang. Ein Wolf. Ein Jäger. Ihre Mutter hat ihr gesagt, sie sei sicher, solange sie nicht vom Weg abweicht. Aber manchmal führt der Weg an dunkle Orte. Jetzt ist Roudette die Jägerin, eine Assassine, die in der ganzen Welt unter dem Namen „Die Lady mit der roten Kapuze“ bekannt ist. Ihre Mission führt sie ins Land Arathea zu einer uralten Bedrohung. Dort liegen Menschen und Feen miteinander im Krieg. Und Roudette wurde angeheuert, um eine Frau zu töten. Die einzige Frau, die je gegen die Lady mit der roten Kapzue gekämpft und diese Begegnung überlebt hat: eine Prinzessin, auch bekannt als Dornröschen …

Cindy Miles: Der Geist der Liebe (OT: MacGowans’s Ghost)
Eigentlich soll Allie Geister aus Odin’s Thumb Pub vertreiben. Aber schon bald fühlt sie sich zu dessen geheimnisvollem Besitzer Gabe hingezogen und erkennt, dass es eigentlich die Geister seiner Vergangenheit sind, die ihn quälen …

 

Anke Greifeneder: Heute, morgen und für immer (Originalausgabe)
»Glaubst du an Liebe auf den ersten Blick, oder soll ich noch mal reinkommen?« Mit diesem Spruch erobert der erfolgreiche Künstler Jasper das Herz von Clara, und von nun an gehören beide zusammen. Aber dann lernt Clara Jaspers Bruder Valentin kennen, der sich zu Jasper verhält wie Feuer zu Wasser. Nur eine Vorliebe scheint beiden gemeinsam zu sein: Clara ═ die bald nicht mehr weiß, wo ihr Herz und Kopf stehen …

Nicole C. Vosseler: Sterne über Sansibar (Originalausgabe)
Die Luft erfüllt vom Duft der Blüten und Gewürze, endlose Tage in herrlichen Gärten und prunkvollen Gemächern, umsorgt und geliebt von der Familie ═ Salimas Leben könnte schöner nicht sein. Doch die unbeschwerten Jahre der Tochter des Sultans von Sansibar finden ein jähes Ende, als sie dem deutschen Kaufmann Heinrich begegnet. Die beiden verlieben sich, und schon bald wird die junge Frau schwanger. Für eine muslimische Prinzessin ist ein uneheliches Kind undenkbar, einen Ungläubigen zu heiraten kommt allerdings auch nicht infrage. So bleibt als Ausweg nur die Flucht nach Hamburg, in Heinrichs Heimat. Doch was erwartet Salima in dem kalten, fremden Land? (Erstmals im Taschenbuch)

Sharon Page u.a.: überSINNLICHE Nächte (OT: Wild Nights)
Sie kommen bei Nacht. Ohne Vorwarnung. Und sie haben nur eins im Sinn. Sexy, leidenschaftlich und gierig nach Vergnügen – so sind sie, die dunklen Verführer, die mit spielerischer Leichtigkeit die Lust in jeder Frau entfesseln. Lasst sie kommen.

 
Lorelei James: Rought Riders 11 – Chasin‘ Eight
Bull rider Chase McKay has finally landed in a pile too big to charm his way out of. Caught with his pants down, he finds himself bucked right off the PBR tour until he can get his act together.
Hollywood actress Ava Cooper became the tabloids’ favorite target when her longtime boyfriend was outed as gay. Now she wants a place to lay low and a chance to prove to herself that she can satisfy a red-blooded man between the sheets. The sexy, rugged cowboy she finds holed up in her Wyoming hideaway seems like the answer to her every fantasy.
But Chase has sworn off women. Forever. Or at least a month. Whichever comes first.
When they take to the road to get Chase more hands-on bull riding experience, they have every intention of keeping their hands off each other. But the two headstrong stars quickly end up riding a hot and heady rodeo circuit all their own—until the press gets wind of their affair. When the dust clears and the lights of the paparazzi fade, are they ready to give up chasing the dream for a chance of finding forever?

Megan Hart: Collide
A childhood accident left Emmaline vulnerable to disturbing fugue states that last only minutes, but feel like an eternity. The blackouts are unsettling but manageable…until she meets Johnny Dellasandro.
The reclusive painter gained notoriety in the ’70s for his debauched lifestyle and raunchy art films. His naked body has achieved cult status, especially in Emm’s mind—she’s obsessed with the man, who’s grown even sexier with age. Today Johnny shuns the spotlight and Emm in particular…until she falls into a fugue on his doorstep.
In that moment she’s transported back thirty years, crashing a party at Johnny’s place in his wild-man heyday— the night is a blur of flesh and heat that lingers on her skin long after she’s woken to the present.
It happens again and again, each time-slip another mind-blowing orgy, and soon Emm can’t stop, though every episode leaves her weaker and weaker. She’s frightened by what’s happening to her, but she’s even more terrified of losing this portal to the Johnny she wants so badly. The one who wants her, too, and takes her—every chance he gets.

 

Meredith Duran: A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal
When Nell Whitby breaks into an earl’s house on a midnight quest for revenge, she finds her pistol pointed at the wrong man—one handsome as sin and naked as the day he was born. Pity he’s a lunatic. He thinks her a missing heiress, but more to the point, he’ll help her escape the slums and right a grave injustice. Not a bad bargain. All she has to do is marry him.
A rake of the first order, Simon St. Maur spent his restless youth burning every bridge he crossed. When he inherits an earldom without a single penny attached to it, he sees a chance to start over—provided he can find an heiress to fund his efforts. But his wicked reputation means courtship will be difficult—until fate sends him the most notorious missing heiress in history. All he needs now is to make her into a lady and keep himself from making the only mistake that could ruin everything: falling in love. . . .

Anne Stuart: House of Rohan 04 – Shameless
A long string of tragic loves haunts Viscount Benedick Francis Alistair Rohan. Cool and cynical, he’s weary of life’s fickle games and wants a prim and proper wife he can ignore while indulging his sensual appetites.
Lady Melisande Carstairs is nothing less than a tornado storming into Benedick’s measured life. Possessed of boundless energy and the soul of a reformer, Melisande always conquers, whether it’s saving the souls of soiled doves or seducing the man she’s inconveniently fallen for. When she informs Benedick that his brother’s newly revived Heavenly Host has graduated from simple carnal debauchery to sadistic violence, he’s compelled to investigate, undercover. Under those covers, however, is Melisande herself, playing a dangerous game in the name of justice.
And the Heavenly Host has just seen her hand, and more…

 

Daisy Goodwin: The American Heiress
Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts’, suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage.

Grave Burrowes: Duke’s Obsession 02 – The Soldier
This Regency era battle of wits, wills, and the sexes features a wily duke determined to see the succession of his line secured. The duke can’t force his sons to marry, but he can make their lives miserable until they do. Resisting his pressure, each gentleman holds out for true love.
The second book in the series features Devlin St. Just, the duke’s oldest, but illegitimate, son. He arrives at his new estate weary in body and spirit only to find the previous owner’s bastard daughter and her beautiful cousin are his responsibility and making his life almost unbearably complicated.

 

Jane Feather: Blackwater Briders 02 – A Wedding Wager
Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fortune’s whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables. Serena even dismissed her first love, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, at her stepfather’s command. But when he attempts to force her into a liaison with a dissolute earl, Serena resolves to do his bidding no more. Sebastian is the only man who ever captured her heart, and it is to him she turns. . . .
Torn between family loyalty and the woman he loves, Sebastian faces a devilish dilemma. His uncle is ailing, and time is running short. Desperate to find a solution, Sebastian conceives a dangerous plan—a wager that could bring him and Serena happiness at last . . . or separate them forever.

Charlotte Featherstone: Brethren Guardians 01 – Seduction & Scandal
With the scandalous nature of her birth to live down, Isabella Fairmont dreams of a proper marriage—even if a passionless one. She saves her deepest desires for the novel she dares to pen, wherein a handsome lord with dark powers seduces her. But then her courtship with an appropriate suitor is threatened by the sudden attentions of the reclusive Earl of Black…whose pale blue eyes and brooding sensuality are exactly as she described in her book.
Isabella tries to resist the mysterious Earl of Black. Yet as he pursues her, with inexplicable knowledge of her past and kisses that consume her, Isabella fears she will succumb.
If only the earl could tell Isabella the truth. With very real, and treacherous, thieves endangering her life, Black will need to protect Isabella from the very people she trusts the most….

Alissa Johnson: Nearly a Lady
Lord Gideon Haverston wanted to right his family’s wrongs. So when he promises young Winnefred Blythe the money that his stepmother had cheated her out of over the years, he expects to be greeted as a hero. But the situation is much more complicated than Gideon had expected-and the task of taming the untrusting Winnefred much more alluring.

 

Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney 11 – Bones of a Feather
When PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner and best friend, Tinkie, take on Monica and Eleanor Levert as clients, they don’t have much hope of solving the case. The wealthy heiresses of Briarcliff in Natchez, Mississippi, claim that a family necklace worth four million dollars has been stolen, and they think that they can hurry the insurance payout if a reputable PI investigates. Sarah Booth has her doubts, and not just about the payout. All of the evidence suggests that the sisters might be committing fraud.
But when they have just started scratching the surface on the sordid past of the Levert family and the blood money that all of their wealth was founded upon, Monica goes missing. The police suspect that the heiresses are playing more games, and Eleanor isn’t doing anything to make them think any different.
But how can she? If she says or does anything besides pass on the insurance money to the kidnappers, they’ll kill Monica.

Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum 17 – Smokin‘ Seventeen
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list.
Short on time to find evidence proving the killer’s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it’s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanie’s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star who’s just returned to town. Stephanie’s sidekick, Lula, is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir “bake-off.” And Grandma Bella, Morelli’s old-world grandmother, is encouraging Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts “the eye” on Stephanie.
With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanie’s life looks like it’s about to go up in smoke.