Saturday, July 9, 2011

Word Wenches News for July now available

We just sent out the new issue of Word Wenches news.  You can read an online copy


Patricia Rice's new book The Devilish Montague is now in stores.

Blake Montague has a distressing tendency to tell the wrong people what he thinks, but just because he regularly ends up in duels doesn’t mean the devil's to blame for his heroics. Blake believes in duty and all those dull responsibilities that Jocelyn Byrd-Carrington never heard of.
 
Although brought up in an eccentric, unlovable family, Jocelyn still knows how to love. She loves her younger brother and her odd mother and the parrots her older half-brother sold when he inherited their father’s estate. She does NOT love her half-brother. She doesn’t love stuffy, annoyingly improper Blake Montague, either, but she can tell he’s a man of integrity, and he has what she needs—a house for her little brother and their parrots. And she has what he needs—a dowry. Both being semi-sensible people, they see the advantages of bringing these assets together. What they don’t see is the life-changing alterations they must make to fit their radically different outlooks into one household. Blake would rather shoot birds than feed them, but if he wants in his new wife’s bed anytime soon, he must make a few adjustments. Falling in love wasn’t in his plans…  Excerpt here
 
 
The next J. D. Robb book is New York to Dallas, out on Sept 13th.  We've just added the excerpt to jdrobb.com.  Time of Death is now available and contains:
 
 Eternity in Death
A seductive killer is luring in victims with a promise of the impossible-immortality. Eve Dallas must strip away the fantasy to catch the coldhearted madman.

Ritual in Death
Eve is plunged into the violent aftermath of a ritualistic murder-and into the mind of an alleged witness who can't remember a thing to save his life.

Missing in Death
When a woman disappears from a New York City ferry, it's a case that only Eve Dallas can solve- because the woman didn't jump, and yet she's not on board.
Read an excerpt