New Releases by Anne Stuart

A RITA-award-winning novel from Anne Stuart, a master of suspense. She woke up with no memories—and a husband who hates her. After a brutal accident leaves Molly Winters with amnesia, she returns to the isolated estate called Winter’s Edge with nothing but questions. Everyone claims it’s her home. Everyone insists she’s Patrick Winters’s wife. But no one seems glad she survived. Patrick says Molly betrayed him and vanished with another man—who later turned up dead in the car crash that nearly killed her. Now the police suspect Molly knows far more than she’s willing to say. Molly doesn’t remember the past. But she knows one thing with chilling certainty: someone wants her dead. Trapped in a mansion filled with secrets—and married to a man who might despise her enough to kill—Molly must uncover the truth about the woman she used to be…before the next “accident” finishes the job.

Sophie Davis has her hands full. She’s just about to open her very own B&B, her dream come true, but everything’s going wrong. What with her rebellious teenage sister and her ditzy mother, she barely has time to ready the house that was once the scene of a triple murder many years ago. To complicate things, a stranger has shown up at the deserted house next door, knowing far too much, threatening everything she’s fought so hard for. Too bad he’s sinfully good-looking. Something is going on in the little Vermont town, and it seems like the murders aren’t all in the past. Sophie doesn’t know who to trust and who to protect. All she knows is, there’s something very wrong going on.... A novel of icy romantic suspense and blistering sexual tension.

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.

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?

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)

Follow the thrilling Ice Series across the pacific with Ice Blue by of RITA Award-winner Anne Stuart Museum curator Summer Hawthorne considered the exquisite ice-blue ceramic bowl given to her by her beloved Japanese nanny a treasure of sentimental value—until somebody tried to kill her for it. The priceless relic is about to ignite a global power struggle that must be stopped at all costs. It''s a desperate situation, and international operative Takashi O''Brien has received his directive: everybody is expendable. Everybody. Especially the woman who is getting dangerously under his skin as the lethal game crosses the Pacific to the remote and beautiful mountains of Japan, where the truth can be as seductive as it is deadly…. Previously published.

RITA Award-winner Anne Stuart continues her Ice Series with a lawyer realizing she’s made a terrible mistake, a billionaire with dark desires, and his personal assistant with his own honorable secret. u00ad The job was supposed to be dead easy—hand-deliver some legal papers to billionaire philanthropist Harry Van Dorn’s extravagant yacht, get his signature and be done. But lawyer Genevieve Spenser soon realizes she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. As Van Dorn tries to make her his plaything, Genevieve must keep her wits if she intends to survive the night. But there’s someone else on the ship who knows the true depths of Van Dorn’s evil. Peter Jensen is far more than the unassuming personal assistant he pretends to be—he’s a secret operative who will stop at nothing to ensure Harry’s deadly Rule of Seven terror campaign dies with him. But now he must decide whether to risk his mission to keep Genevieve alive or allow her to become collateral damage. Previously published.

Single mother Marielle Brandt has inherited the decrepit old apartment building known as Farnum’s Castle, once the home of a notorious gangster. It’s filled with a number of quirky residents, including Simon Zabriskie, a late night disc jockey with his own dark secrets. As Halloween approaches, things start to go bump in the night, mysterious intruders abound, and no one knows if it’s the ghost of old Farnum himself or someone a little more contemporary out to sabotage the castle. Marielle only knows she’s falling in love with the grumpy hermit who lives on the top floor, and suspects that despite his best efforts, he’s falling for her too. Now if they could just survive Halloween.…

RITA Award-winner Anne Stuart kicks off The Ice Series with the story of a young woman swept up into a world of deadly criminals and reckless attraction. u00ad Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion–even a little danger. But when she’s offered a lucrative weekend gig translating at a business conference in a remote chateau, she jumps at the chance to shake things up. When Chloe stumbles onto the discovery that her employers are anything but the entrepreneurs they appeared to be, suddenly she knows far too much. Her clients are illegal arms dealers, and one of them is ordered to kill her. But instead, Bastien Toussaint drags Chloe away, and the next thing she knows she’s on the run with the most terrifying and seductive man she’s ever met. Previously published.

The Gunslinger... Mad Billy Maddox, aka the Angel of Death, comes to the tiny town in Johnson County, Wyoming as a gun for hire to scare away the settlers. He’s a man who makes his living with his guns, and he never expects to find someone to make him want to change his ways. The Lady... Sara is the sweet and shy wife of the biggest bully in town. She’s learned not to let anything scare her, but the way Will Maddox looks at her shakes her up far worse than her husband’s heavy fists. She knows she should hate him, but she can’t. Together... He’s a bad man, and she’s a good woman. There’s no future for them in the wild Wyoming territory. But Maddox is a man who gets what he wants, no matter how high the price, and he wants Sara. Not even the fact that he killed her husband will get in his way. (Previously published as “Dangerous Touch” in the One Night With a Rogue 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)

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.

Malcolm MacLaren has come to the small Scottish island of St. Columba for one reason—revenge. He hasn’t counted on a beautiful, fairy-like widow to haunt his footsteps, a woman so irresistible that he could almost forget his reason for being there. Ailie Spens is an old soul. She dances barefoot in the moonlight, floats like a fey creature among the relatives who try to rule her life and does her best to convince everyone she is half-mazed. And she knows when a man is under an enchantment. He walked from the sea, terrifying the townspeople, and everyone knows he must be a selkie, a man on land and a seal in the icy North Atlantic. But Ailie knows he has come for her, to rescue her from the stifling future her relatives have deemed proper. Now she simply has to convince him to take her with him when he returns to the deep, dark sea.

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.

Katie Flynn isn’t sure she wants to be living in a gothic novel. Tempestuous weather? Check. Haunted mansion with a sketchy housekeeper? Check. One gorgeous man, dark and brooding, chained by an impossible secret? Check. But she’s no vulnerable, brainless heroine, even if she’s having a hard time resisting her unwilling host. O’Neal has no choice but to rescue Katie from the hurricane that is ravaging the rocky Maine coast, and all his efforts to send her on her way meet with failure. If she stays much longer, she’ll find out about the spectres and the curse and things that go bump in the night. If she stays much longer, he just might fall in love with her, when love is out of the question in his dark life. But Katie has other ideas, including finding out just where those secrets lead. Danger is all around, and the truth is unbelievable. But that doesn’t keep her from falling in love with a haunted man who’s everything she ever wanted.

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.

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.

The man known as the Scorpion is as dangerous as his counterpart—most people keep a safe distance. But Miranda Rohan is already ruined and in need of a friend—surely the mysterious Scorpion will pose no threat. But even the flagrantly wicked Scorpion has his dark secrets, and Miranda has been his pawn for longer than she could ever imagine. The Scorpions are deadly, but a Rohan never retreats. With games and lies, betrayal and revenge, who will triumph in their dark game, particularly when fiery attraction comes into the bargain?

Miranda meets the Scorpion. Trouble ensues.

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!

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.

Rita Award winning title "Desert Isle Keeper" - All About Romance Reviews Jessica Hansen''s success and icy calm hide painful secrets and a past that shapes her life. That is, until she meets Springer MacDowell, her best friend''s son. One decision sets off a series of cataclysmic events that rip apart her safe life. Retreating to an old summer house in Vermont, Jessica slowly learns to accept friendship, the past, and the new family she''s made. She''s building a hopeful future, until Springer comes back into her life, ready to shatter her new-found peace. Will these two survivors ever learn how to belong? Can they heal enough to make a family theirs? 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.

Ellie Johnson Lundquist survived the massacre that killed her parents and decimated the town of Morey’s Falls, Montana. Now, with the anniversary of that day putting everyone on edge, someone has walked into town, throwing everything off-balance. Fifteen years ago Tanner’s father took an arsenal to the town square. A lone wolf, Tanner has spent his life on the road, trying to escape that memory, but now he’s come back, ready to face his father’s past and his own. Strange things have been happening in town, and Tanner’s an easy target. His presence unsettles everyone, especially Ellie, who’s eager to get him out of her life for good. There’s no way she can be attracted to the son of a killer. No way he could want her. But as the anniversary of the massacre draws closer it’s starting to look as if history is going to repeat itself. Ellie and Tanner are thrown together in a race against time to find the new killer before history comes back to haunt them and destroy any chance of a future they might have together.

The Soldier Tough, gorgeous soldier of fortune Reilly (Whatever his other name is) promised his best friend he’d take care of his wife and baby, bringing them out of the war-torn South American country they were stuck in. He was expecting a spoiled, glamorous socialite, not a quiet, stubborn girl devoted to the tiny infant. The Nun Carlie Forrest had been waiting a long time to take her final vows, but caring for the new-born baby of a dead woman was more important, leaving her stuck in the abandoned convent. She wasn’t going to just hand the baby over to a man who looked like he’d never changed a diaper in his life, and she didn’t mind pretending to be the dead socialite in order to keep the child safe. The Baby Everyone wants him – the rebels, the dead dictator’s army, the rich American grandparents, and Carlie. Can she let him go when the safest place was cold and heartless? The Problem He’s all business – he has no intention of falling for his best friend’s widow. She’s all business – she doesn’t want to fall in love with this big, tough, gorgeous man. But love and trouble don’t listen to good intentions, not when you’re thrown together with your unexpected and inconvenient soul mate.

The Spinster: As a maiden aunt, Gillian Redfern lives as an unpaid servant to her demanding family. Little wonder she finds the attentions of a rake distracting, and even less wonder that her usual good sense begins to unravel when Lord Marlow takes her in his arms. The Rake: Ronan Patrick Blakely, Lord Marlow, is a man of great charm and little moral character, a gambler, a womanizer, and handsome as sin to boot. He has no qualms about placing a wager on the virtue of one small, shy spinster. But Lord Marlow is about to discover that Miss Redfern is more siren than spinster. She amuses him, arouses him, and, much to his dismay, makes him a better man. Gillian will discover, in turn, that Lord Marlow possesses the power to turn her into a very wicked woman. The rake and the spinster are poised to find a love that neither could have imagined. If only someone weren''t out to destroy them both . . . 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 New York 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.

This book is a classic romance, originally published in 1983. After escaping from an abusive relationship, Cathy Whiteheart has sworn off men. She has no desire to date, and she’s not looking for love. When her meddling sister, drags Cathy on to Sinclair MacDonald’s yacht, neither the handsome man nor his considerable charm is going to change Cathy’s mind. At least not at first. But Sinclair is handsome and kind and when the two are thrown together time and time again, he starts to make Cathy long for the kind of love she’s always dreamed of.