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Aliens? by Shanna Murchison

Posted April 25, 2008 Comments(0)

The Art of Love by Evelyn Trimborn

Struggling Dublin artist Shannon Butler is in the middle of a hugely successful show at her gallery when estranged family member Marius Winters appears, hell-bent on revenge. After years away from Ireland, he turns up to accuse her of robbing him of his rightful inheritance.

Shannon is able to convince him that though appearances are against her, she’s innocent. Marius is forced to look at his scheming new wife Maggie as the culprit. He realizes she never loved him, she was only interested in his fame and fortune. He files for divorce, and tried to get his life back on track.

As Marius begins to get to know the adult Shannon, he starts to see her in a whole new light. She is warm, loving, compassionate, everything Maggie could never be. Soon they become friends and business partners, but both find themselves passionately aching for more.

Thrown together by circumstances and adversity, they grow ever closer, both eager to try to make up for the mistakes of the past and see if they have a future together.

Both are forced to face the shocking truth–they’ve always loved one another.  But will the demons of the past stand between them? Or do they dare act upon their desires and give in to the magnetic attraction which pulls them towards each other with every passing moment..

Just when Shannon trusts to love, and believes their way is clear for them to build a future together, Marius’ lying ex-wife comes to her with a story so shocking, it shatters all her hopes and dreams.  Shannon knows that even if it isn’t true, it could well destroy any chance of happiness she and Marius might have.

How can Shannon find the truth, and prevent her new-found love Marius from sacrificing their love, and leaving her forever?

The Art of Love by Evelyn Trimborn
Setting: Modern Ireland

Rating: Sensual

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Posted April 20, 2008 Comments(0)

The Miss Matched
The Rakehell Regency Series
Book 3
Sorcha MacMurrough

Too Many Men?

Pamela Ashton finds herself driven to distraction by the number of suitors beating a path to her door now that she has come of age. From the handsome but reticent Earl of Ferncliffe to the dashing but impecunious Captain Breedon, she is confronted with a bewildering array of men all determined to make her their own.

But does she want to be a mere ornament or possession of a greedy fortune-hunter? A breeder of children and the queen of knitting and tatting? Or is she destined for something more?

Only the debonair local vicar Jonathan Deveril seems to see Pamela as something other than a curvaceous but empty-headed socialite with a huge fortune. Is it possible that Jonathan holds the key to her future, and her heart?

But as Pamela and Jonathan grow ever closer, the dark forces from his past begin to swarm all around the couple, threatening scandal and ruin which will pull them apart forever. Jonathan is accused of betraying Pamela in the worst possible way.

Pamela must trust her heart and love to seek the truth. Is Jonathan really all that he seems? Appearances can be deceptive…

The Miss Matched
Book Three of The Rakehell Regency Series
Sorcha MacMurrough
Rating: Moderately sensual
Word count=93,000

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The Miss Matched

Posted April 11, 2008 Comments(0)

A romantic free short story set in Montana, on the theme of a second chance at love, by talented author Sorcha MacMurrough

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Posted April 7, 2008 Comments(0)

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Posted April 6, 2008 Comments(0)

The Missed Match

A Rakehell Regency Series Novel

Beautiful heiress Charlotte Castlemaine is just about to elope with the man of her dreams when fate takes a hand in the form of handsome Thomas Eltham, the Duke of Ellesmere. Only a few minutes in his carriage nearly proves her undoing.

Compromised by this near-stranger in front of her father, she faces the prospect of certain ruin, until Thomas declares that they are engaged. Charlotte’s passionate response to the Duke is bad enough; the fact that Thomas persists in making wedding plans even though he knows she is in love with another seems a disaster of the worse magnitude.

Thomas has admired Charlotte from afar, but little thought he would ever have an opportunity to marry her until he overhears three of Charlotte’s supposed friends plotting her ruin. Determined that his long time enemy Herbert will never harm Charlotte if he can help it, Thomas warns her father that the young woman has fled, and races to the appointed meeting place before it’s too late.

Thomas’s single kiss in order to make their supposed elopement look genuine sparks off an inferno of passion, jealousy, suspicion and revenge which can only have one outcome: the former soldier must fight for the woman he loves and all he holds dear in a cataclysmic battle that can have only one winner.

The question is, will Charlotte prove Thomas’s enemy, or ally? Can she ever come to love this stranger with kisses like fire, or will she flee from the desire that blazes within her at his merest touch, scorching all reason and commonsense. Will Charlotte return to Herbert, or learn to trust the enigmatic Duke and help him in his quest for justice against the man who once tried to kill him?

The Missed Match
A Rakehell Regency Series Novel
Sorcha MacMurrough
Setting: Regency England, 1813
Word Count=93,000
Rating: Sensual

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Posted April 4, 2008 Comments(0)

THE HART AND THE HARP

Sorcha MacMurrough

Ireland, 1146

Shive MacDermot and Tiernan O’Hara agree to wed to end a five-year feud between their clans which had been provoked by the murder of her brother. Tiernan had been her brother’s best friend–could he have done the unthinkable and killed him in cold blood?

Tiernan never allowed himself to harbor romantic feelings for his best friend’s sister, but as he becomes convinced her life is truly in danger, his cold heart begins to thaw toward his lovely new bride. Once the two of them open to love, the scorching passion between them can no longer be denied.

But far from being a happy bride, Shive begins to have her suspicions that all is not as it seems in her clan. She soon realises her brother’s killer was certainly not her new husband Tiernan, but a member of her own clan. As the passion between them increases, so too do her fears for their happy future if the real killer is not brought to justice.

Can she win Tiernan’s love and prove to him she is not the enemy? Can Tiernan keep his wife safe? Or will the march of history tear the two lovers asunder?

Shive undertakes an epic struggle to win Tiernan’s love and prove to him she is not his enemy. She must also save her clan and their whole region of Ireland from the ambitious Muireadach O’Rourke, determined to eliminate anyone who might oppose his bid to become high-king of all Ireland.

Muireadach is nothing if not clever. Will Tiernan believe that his own wife has betrayed him, and become her enemy himself? Or will he trust to the love between them, and fight for their lives before its too late?

THE HART AND THE HARP
Sorcha MacMurrough
Ireland, 1146
Word Count= 127,000
Rating: Mildly sensual

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Posted April 2, 2008 Comments(0)

Star Attraction by Sorcha MacMurrough

Contemporary Romance, Suspense romance, Settings: New York, Los Angeles

College lecturer and secret romance novelist Zaira Darcy literally bumps into the man of her dreams in an elevator. Dashing Brad Clarke, Hollywood’s hottest new director, working alongside her in New York on the screenplay of her hot new bestseller, is everything she could want in a man, and more.

But the secrets from her past threaten to destroy any chance of happiness they might have. Zaira must learn to trust to love again. Just when Zaira and Brad find true love, her joy is ripped from her by a series of shocking revelations. Brad is forced to go on the run for a series of crimes he didn’t commit. Can Zaira trust him? Or is someone behind this plot to ruin him?

Zaira searches her heart for the truth, and must lock horns with her ex-husband Jonathan one last time to save Brad’s life, even if it means sacrificing her own…

Star Attraction by Sorcha MacMurrough
Setting: Modern, New York and LA
Some suspense elements.
Rating: Fairly sensual

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Posted April 1, 2008 Comments(0)